European Countries Offer Ukraine Peace Plan That’s Radically Different From Trump’s

Most notably, the European proposal doesn’t provide a guarantee that Ukraine won’t join NATO or include Ukrainian territorial concessions. Under the US plan, Ukraine would need to enshrine in its constitution that it wouldn’t join NATO, and the military alliance would agree that Ukraine wouldn’t be admitted in the future.

The European proposal says that NATO joining Ukraine “depends on the consensus of NATO members, which does not exist. It also leaves open the possibility of NATO sending troops to Ukraine, something that’s explicitly ruled out under the US proposal.

Regarding territory, the US plan would involve Ukraine ceding what territory it still controls in the Donbas, which would become a demilitarized zone, and freezing the battle lines in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. The European proposal states that “negotiations on territorial swaps will start from the Line of Contact.”