Article 5 NATO: Trump's plan requires painful concessions from Ukraine

Trump's plan requires painful concessions from Ukraine, but at the same time contains an unprecedented promise. President Volodymyr Zelensky's main goal in the peace talks is to obtain reliable security guarantees from the US and Europe — and this is the first time Trump has been willing to put such an offer on the table, Axios reports.

The draft provides that the US president, after consulting with Ukraine, NATO, and European partners, will determine the necessary response measures. NATO members, in particular France, the UK, Germany, Poland, and Finland, confirm their readiness to act jointly with the US.

The security guarantee is proposed for a period of 10 years with the possibility of extension. The document contains spaces for signatures from Ukraine, the US, the EU, NATO, and Russia. According to a senior White House official, Russia has been informed of the draft, but it is not known whether the signature of the Russian president will be required.

The proposal calls for significant concessions from Ukraine: the creation of a demilitarized zone; the transfer of the entire Donbas region to Russia; the freezing of the current lines of control in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions; the absence of NATO troops on Ukrainian territory; and a limit on the size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to 600,000 troops.

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