“It’s just not gonna work;” Local Ukrainian woman speaks out about 28-point peace plan
LELAND, NC (WWAY) — A Brunswick County woman from Ukraine is speaking out with her response to the Trump administration’s 28-point plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Anastasiia Chapman moved to the U.S. more than 10 years ago from Ukraine.
She is the regional director for Ukrainians in the Carolinas which sends food and medical supplies to Ukrainians in need during the war.
Many of her family members including her parents, siblings and her grandmother are still in Ukraine.
She said they recently relocated to another part of the country to the war. Chapman said her family is happy to hear about these peace talks, but she doesn’t believed this plan is the solution.
“It’s just not gonna work, if they see that this behavior will be rewarded, nothing will change, it will just give them some time to grow more military and then who knows what country will be next,” Chapman said.
(ABC) — Monday afternoon, it was revealed that the peace plan now has fewer points following negotiations in Switzerland to try to make the draft proposal more acceptable to Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official close to the matter.
The initial 28-point peace plan now has 19 points, according to the official. It is unclear what points were removed.
The updated proposed peace agreement does not include a strict limit on the size of the Ukrainian army, a source briefed on the matter told ABC News. Under the initial proposal, the army would have been limited to 600,000 personnel.
The issue of amnesty for acts committed during the Russia-Ukraine war will not be included in the new version of the draft peace proposal, the source added. The initial plan had stated that all parties involved in the conflict “will receive full amnesty for their actions during the war.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that his delegation was heading home and, once he is briefed on the talks, “we will determine the next steps and the timing.”
“As of now, after Geneva, there are fewer points, no longer 28, and a lot of the right things have been taken into account in this framework,” Zelenskyy said on social media Monday. “There is still something to work on together — very difficult — to make a final document, and we need to do everything with dignity.”
Zelenskyy said he will discuss “sensitive” issues with President Donald Trump.
The Kremlin’s top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters on Monday that the proposal would require revision by all parties and that so far no one has discussed it with Russia, which he said had received the initial 28-point plan.
“I would assume that it would be natural to expect the Americans to approach us to meet face-to-face and begin discussions,” he said when asked whether talks between Moscow and Washington on the American plan were expected in the coming weeks.
