His ‘arrows’ at Ukraine turned the US president Donald Trump In his new statements to Time magazine.
“I believe that what caused the start of the war was when they started talking about NATO membership,” Donald Trump said directly accusing Ukraine.
In fact, the US president stressed that “Crimea will remain in Russia”, referring to the Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014.
Reuters: The terms of the US agreement proposed for Ukraine
In the meantime, he has released today (24.04.25) Reuters the terms of the US agreement proposes to reach an agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
Reuters reports that the US proposal is described as “the US final offer to both sides”, and as it has already been known in previous days even by Donald Trump himself, if Ukraine and Russia do not agree then the US will be withdrawn from the negotiations.
More specifically, US terms for peace in Ukraine are as follows:
-The Ukraine will not seek to join NATO
-The Ukraine can seek to join the EU
-The US recognizes de jure the control of Crimea by Russia
-The US recognizes de facto Lugansk’s control by Russia
-The US recognizes de facto the lands of Zaporizia, Donetsk and the Russian Peninsula
-The Ukraine recovers territories in the district of Kharkov
-Ukraine recovers -through the US -the control of the Zaporizia nuclear power plant, with electricity distribution on both sides, as well as the Kahova Dam
-Ukraine enjoys unhindered crossing the Dnieper River and control of the Kinbourn Peninsula
-The United States and Ukraine will apply Economic Cooperation/Minerals Agreement
-The Ukraine will be fully rebuilt and will be financially compensated
-The sanctions against Russia imposed because of the 2014 conflict will be lifted
-The economic cooperation of US-Russia in the energy sector and in other industrial sectors