US expects Ukraine to respond to proposals to end war

Ukraine is under pressure this week to respond to a series of far-reaching ideas from the Trump administration to end the war in Ukraine by making concessions to Russia, including potential U.S. recognition of Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and removing Kiev from the list of NATO membership candidates, The Wall Street Journal reported.

These ideas were conveyed to the Ukrainian side by U.S. officials in a confidential document during a meeting in Paris on April 17.

It proposes to make the territory around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant a neutral zone to be transferred under US control. The front line is to be frozen. At the same time, the plan does not say anything about recognizing Russia's right to control the four occupied regions of Ukraine, although there is no demand that the Russians leave the territories occupied by them.

There are no proposals to reduce the size of the Ukrainian army.

The Ukrainian response will be presented at a meeting of US, Ukrainian and European officials in London later this week.

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