The Trump administration’s 28-point draft proposal to lastly finish Russia’s invasion into Ukraine would require Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s authorities to make important concessions — but in addition contains NATO-style safety ensures for Ukraine, in accordance with a senior U.S. official.
The plan, which continues to be a draft and will change, was introduced in Kyiv earlier Thursday. (See the complete draft beneath)
The plan was drafted by Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff with enter from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the White Home press secretary and a senior U.S. administration official confirmed Thursday.
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky exterior the West Wing of the White Home on October 17, 2025, in Washington, DC. President Trump, contemporary off a ceasefire settlement between Israel and Hamas, is internet hosting President Zelensky for a bilateral lunch within the Cupboard Room in hopes of advancing a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
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The plan would pressure Kyiv to surrender further territory within the east, cap the scale of its army and agree it should by no means be a part of NATO, amongst various different gadgets that might be painful for the war-torn nation to swallow.
Though the Trump administration plan requires important concessions from Ukraine, one of many safety ensures that might be offered to Ukraine is modeled on the rules of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Below the proposed plan, the U.S. and European allies would view an assault on Ukraine as an assault on the “transatlantic neighborhood,” in accordance with a senior U.S. administration official.
Axios first reported particulars of the draft plan.
Steve Witkoff, U.S. Particular Envoy to the Center East, speaks through the America Enterprise Discussion board at Kaseya Heart in Miami, Florida, U.S. November 6, 2025.
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Formally, the 28-point peace plan notes that “Ukraine will obtain dependable safety ensures.”
The senior official confirmed that a type of safety ensures is a NATO-style safety assure, which suggests the U.S. and its allies might reply with army pressure if Russia assaults Ukraine sooner or later.
That might be seen as an enormous, unprecedented win for Ukraine and Zelenskyy, who has, for years, sought long-term, collective protection safety from NATO allies.
The plan was introduced to Zelenskky on Thursday, the U.S. official stated.
“This plan was drawn up instantly following discussions with probably the most senior members of President Zelensky’s administration, Rustem Umerov, who agreed to nearly all of the plan, after making a number of modifications, and introduced it to President Zelensky,” the senior U.S. administration official stated to ABC Information.
US President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) within the Cupboard Room of the White Home in Washington, DC, on October 17, 2025.
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White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated in an announcement offered to ABC Information that the plan displays the complicated scenario and that each Russia and Ukraine will achieve greater than they’ll give.
“Because the Trump Administration has clearly stated, any deal should present full safety ensures and deterrence for Ukraine, Europe, and Russia to make sure the tip of the warfare, along with monetary alternatives for Ukraine to rebuild, and for Russia to rejoin the worldwide economic system, to learn the individuals in each nations,” Leavitt stated within the assertion. “This plan was crafted to replicate the realities of the scenario…to search out the very best win-win state of affairs, the place each events achieve greater than they need to give.”
In his night deal with on Thursday, Zelenskyy stated he had a “very severe dialog” with U.S. officers who laid out what he referred to as a “imaginative and prescient” for ending the warfare.
In his remarks, Zelenskyy reiterated that Ukraine wants an actual peace that will not be damaged.
“I outlined what’s essentially vital for us. And we agreed that the groups will work on these proposals – in order that it’s actual,” Zelenkskyy stated in his deal with. “We is not going to make harsh statements and are dedicated to clear, sincere work – Ukraine, the US and our mates and companions in Europe and the world.”
The total plan, in accordance with a draft obtained by ABC Information:
1. Ukraine’s sovereignty might be confirmed.
2. A complete non-aggression settlement might be concluded between Russia, Ukraine and Europe. All ambiguities of the final 30 years might be thought of settled.
3. It’s anticipated that Russia is not going to invade neighboring nations and NATO is not going to develop additional.
4. A dialogue might be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the US, to resolve all safety points and create situations for de-escalation with a purpose to guarantee world safety and enhance alternatives for cooperation and future financial growth.
5. Ukraine will obtain dependable safety ensures.
6. The dimensions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces might be restricted to 600,000 personnel.
7. Ukraine agrees to enshrine in its structure that it’s going to not be a part of NATO, and NATO agrees to incorporate in its statutes a provision that Ukraine is not going to be admitted sooner or later.
8. NATO agrees to not station troops in Ukraine.
9. European fighter jets might be stationed in Poland.
10. The U.S. assure:
— The U.S. will obtain compensation for the assure;
— If Ukraine invades Russia, it should lose the assure;
— If Russia invades Ukraine, along with a decisive coordinated army response, all world sanctions might be reinstated, recognition of the brand new territory and all different advantages of this deal might be revoked;
— If Ukraine launches a missile at Moscow or St. Petersburg with out trigger, the safety assure might be deemed invalid.
11. Ukraine is eligible for EU membership and can obtain short-term preferential entry to the European market whereas this problem is being thought of.
12. A robust world package deal of measures to rebuild Ukraine, together with however not restricted to:
— The creation of a Ukraine Growth Fund to spend money on fast-growing industries, together with know-how, information facilities, and synthetic intelligence.
— The USA will cooperate with Ukraine to collectively rebuild, develop, modernize, and function Ukraine’s fuel infrastructure, together with pipelines and storage services.
— Joint efforts to rehabilitate war-affected areas for the restoration, reconstruction and modernization of cities and residential areas.
— Infrastructure growth.
— Extraction of minerals and pure sources.
— The World Financial institution will develop a particular financing package deal to speed up these efforts.
13. Russia might be reintegrated into the worldwide economic system:
— The lifting of sanctions might be mentioned and agreed upon in levels and on a case-by-case foundation.
— The USA will enter right into a long-term financial cooperation settlement for mutual growth within the areas of power, pure sources, infrastructure, synthetic intelligence, information facilities, uncommon earth steel extraction tasks within the Arctic, and different mutually useful company alternatives.
— Russia might be invited to rejoin the G8.
14. Frozen funds might be used as follows:
— $100 billion in frozen Russian belongings might be invested in US-led efforts to rebuild and spend money on Ukraine;
— The US will obtain 50% of the income from this enterprise. Europe will add $100 billion to extend the quantity of funding obtainable for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Frozen European funds might be unfrozen. The rest of the frozen Russian funds might be invested in a separate US-Russian funding automobile that may implement joint tasks in particular areas. This fund might be aimed toward strengthening relations and rising widespread pursuits to create a powerful incentive to not return to battle.
15. A joint American-Russian working group on safety points might be established to advertise and guarantee compliance with all provisions of this settlement.
16. Russia will enshrine in regulation its coverage of non-aggression in the direction of Europe and Ukraine.
17. The USA and Russia will agree to increase the validity of treaties on the non-proliferation and management of nuclear weapons, together with the START I Treaty.
18. Ukraine agrees to be a non-nuclear state in accordance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
19. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant might be launched underneath the supervision of the IAEA, and the electrical energy produced might be distributed equally between Russia and Ukraine — 50:50.
20. Each nations undertake to implement academic packages in faculties and society aimed toward selling understanding and tolerance of various cultures and eliminating racism and prejudice:
— Ukraine will undertake EU guidelines on non secular tolerance and the safety of linguistic minorities.
— Each nations will comply with abolish all discriminatory measures and assure the rights of Ukrainian and Russian media and schooling.
— All Nazi ideology and actions should be rejected and prohibited.
21. Territories:
— Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk might be acknowledged as de facto Russian, together with by the US.
— Kherson and Zaporizhzhia might be frozen alongside the road of contact, which can imply de facto recognition alongside the road of contact.
— Russia will relinquish different agreed territories it controls exterior the 5 areas.
— Ukrainian forces will withdraw from the a part of Donetsk Oblast that they presently management, and this withdrawal zone might be thought of a impartial demilitarized buffer zone, internationally acknowledged as territory belonging to the Russian Federation. Russian forces is not going to enter this demilitarized zone.
22. After agreeing on future territorial preparations, each the Russian Federation and Ukraine undertake to not change these preparations by pressure. Any safety ensures is not going to apply within the occasion of a breach of this dedication.
23. Russia is not going to stop Ukraine from utilizing the Dnieper River for business actions, and agreements might be reached on the free transport of grain throughout the Black Sea.
24. A humanitarian committee might be established to resolve excellent points:
— All remaining prisoners and our bodies might be exchanged on an ‘all for all’ foundation.
— All civilian detainees and hostages might be returned, together with youngsters.
— A household reunification program might be carried out.
— Measures might be taken to alleviate the struggling of the victims of the battle.
25. Ukraine will maintain elections in 100 days.
26. All events concerned on this battle will obtain full amnesty for his or her actions through the warfare and agree to not make any claims or contemplate any complaints sooner or later.
27. This settlement might be legally binding. Its implementation might be monitored and assured by the Peace Council, headed by President Donald J. Trump. Sanctions might be imposed for violations.
28. As soon as all events comply with this memorandum, the ceasefire will take impact instantly after either side retreat to agreed factors to start implementation of the settlement.
