FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hand with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as they meet to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with senior administration officials on Thursday to discuss the plan, which includes demands that Ukraine cut its military by over 600,000 troops, give up long-range missiles that can strike Moscow, and give up land occupied by Russian forces, according to reports.
Michael Bociurkiw, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, discussed the leaked plan in a new interview with Times Radio on Friday.
"This so-called plan...is something that could have been easily scripted by the Kremlin," Bociurkiw said. "It has mostly everything that they've asked for, and it's absurd and obscene what's being asked for, including limiting the size of Ukraine's military, saying Ukraine can't get into NATO, and no NATO troops on the ground. So there goes the coalition of the willing."
Experts have often criticized Trump for parroting Russian talking points about the war and presenting peace plans that seem to favor the Russians.
"I think I also heard something right down to the micro level of Western diplomats not being able to come to Ukraine," he continued. "So if you take all of that together as well as some of the other elements, it's game over for Ukraine as we know it. The key elements of this deal are nothing any Ukrainian president could ever sign."
