Sources Confirm Outline of Trump Ukraine Peace Plan
Jan. 9—Well-placed sources close to the White House are confirming the basic content of a proposed Trump 100-Day Peace Plan for Ukraine, first reported by the Daily Mail and then Newsweek, which obtained the outline from Ukrainian media. These sources are saying the plan’s implementation timeline may be adjusted, but it is essentially correct. That timeline has a phone discussion between NATO’s sock puppet Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin to occur soon, with a head a head-to-head meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy soon thereafter, from which would come an announcement declaring a ceasefire-in-place by Easter (April 20), with further discussions between the two sides hammering out an agreement, whose terms would be announced May 9, which happens to be the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The sources reported that Trump will be discussing his plan with both Presidents Putin and Zelenskyy by phone, but that its basic terms have been already agreed to as points to be negotiated. The main peace process mediator in the talks will be Keith Kellogg, President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia. Trump intends to get personally involved in the final round of talks leading to the announcement of the agreement in May.
(It would appear that Trump has already been in phone contact with Putin, as he indicated to the New York Post Feb. 7. The President also says that might be meeting with Zelenskyy in Washington next week.)
“The important thing is that this senseless slaughter stops on Easter,” said a source, “and that it won’t start up again.” The war has claimed more than a million lives, with reliable military analysts not working with either the Russians or serving NATO’s propaganda machine estimating that more than two-thirds of the dead are Ukrainian.
According to reports other than those about a ceasefire, the proposed plan would assign Ukraine a sovereign, but neutral status, barring it from joining NATO. Ukraine would be allowed to join the European Union by 2030.
The Plan would allow Russia to keep control of the four oblasts—Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia—previously part of Ukraine in the east that have joined the Russia Federation, along with Crimea which Russia took over in 2014. There is no language in the proposed agreement to “cede” any territory to Russia or to recognize Russian sovereignty over the former Ukrainian territory which Russia will continue to control.
Ukraine would be permitted to maintain the current size of its army and continue to receive military support from the U.S. and would be barred from any offensive actions against Russia.
Under the terms of the proposed agreement, Russia will withdraw all its troops from Ukrainian territory, with the exception of the four oblasts and Crimea. Ukraine will withdraw all of its troops from Russia’s Kursk Oblast and the 4 Oblasts that are now part of the Russian Federation.
Trump’s plan proposes that the peace will be policed by troops from European nations, including the United Kingdom, but without any “boots on the ground” involvement of NATO or the United States.
The United States would be the sole guarantor of the agreement and of Ukrainian sovereignty. Trump has recently stated that he wants Ukraine to pay its debt to the U.S. by granting the U.S. access to rare-earth elements (REE) mined in Ukrainian territory for the U.S. role in stopping NATO’s war against Russia using Ukrainian bodies, as well as for past and future supplies of weapons and munitions. Zelenskyy has responded favorably to the suggestion, stating the terms of such an exchange would have to be worked out. Meanwhile, the French government has been negotiating with Ukraine for rights to these same REE deposits, according to French government officials. Those French officials say they will challenge U.S.’ rights to them.
Meanwhile, Kellogg has been pressing Zelenskyy to set up elections, which he banned under a martial law decree. Zelenskyy's term of office expired in May 2024, and he has ruled under the martial law decree. This has led to Putin and members of the Ukrainian opposition to declare his rule illegitimate.
“There really is no reason to delay these [elections],” said Kellogg , especially if the ceasefire is implemented. Trump’s envoy stated that the U.S. is not trying to replace Zelenskyy, who in the past, has been unwilling to negotiate with Putin and who has pledged not to give up one acre of Ukrainian land to the “invaders.”
“The deal is going to be hard for Zelenskyy to swallow,” said a source. “But land is going to be lost. In fact, it already is. Trump is sensitive to this, and has explained this to the Russians, which is why there will not be any formal adjustment of borders in the agreement.”
The other major issue is the reconstruction of the war-battered country. Trump’s plan estimates a cost around $500 billion, which could be spread out over 10 years. It envisions help from mostly Europe, but from some other countries like China and perhaps Saudi Arabia, as well. There is no stipulation of guilt for the war. That “angered the hell out of NATO,” said a source. “They wanted the war guilt to be placed squarely on the Russians and for them to pay a hefty price in the rebuild.”
Russia may pay something, sources report. The Plan does not specify when, but it does anticipate that, as it is implemented, the U.S. and others will lift economic sanctions on Russia, starting with its energy exportation of crude oil, coal, natural gas, and electricity. The idea is floating around that some kind of tax might be imposed on energy sales, whose revenue would then go to pay for Ukraine reconstruction. There is also the question of more than $400 billion in Russian assets that have been seized in accounts in Western banks; there is some speculation that if they are returned to Russia, some portion of the funds will go to Ukranian reconstruction.
In addition, there is the question of whether the four oblasts, where some of the most destructive fighting in the war has taken place, would be part of the overall reconstruction package.
Sources report that Trump’s plan will be discussed, if not publicly, at next week’s Munich Security Conference, which Kellogg will attend and speak at, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The thought is that the President himself will make the public reveal of the Plan, also perhaps this coming week.
“There is yet a way to go here,” said a source. “There are many crucial issues that have yet to be addressed, not the least of which is Putin’s insistence that all neo-Nazi military formations like Azov in the Ukraine be disbanded. It is hard to see how that gets implemented. But the President sees great momentum on both sides for ending the war. It is only NATO and its deluded operatives inside the U.S. that want to fight on. And Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America, is not going to let NATO stand in the way of peace.”
This and other sources report that Trump will be meeting with Putin before the end of February, and that preparations for the meeting are in the advanced stages.