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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin says he has rejected part of the U.S. peace proposals on Ukraine, adding that Washington’s updated “peace plan” now consists of 27 points divided into four packages.
According to comments cited by Russian state media, Putin said his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys — Steve Vitkoff and Jared Kushner — lasted a long time because the American side proposed reviewing each clause in detail. He described the talks as “useful and necessary.”
Putin claimed that the U.S. had divided its 27-point plan into four separate packages for sequential discussion. He admitted that Russia rejected some of the proposals but did not specify which ones. “Russia did not agree with certain points of the U.S. peace proposals on Ukraine, but this is difficult work,” he said.
In the same interview, Putin went on to assert that Russia would “in any case” seize Donbas as well as Ukraine’s southern and eastern regions, and repeated the false claim that Kyiv had “chosen to fight.”
Vitkoff and Kushner arrived in Moscow on 2 December to discuss a revised version of the U.S. document. Their meeting with Putin lasted five hours. Afterward, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said no compromise had been reached yet, though both sides were ready to continue talks.
Ushakov’s remarks were widely interpreted as a sign that Putin had rejected the U.S. plan. However, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later insisted that this was not the case.
