The US President has demanded that Ukraine accepts his peace plan, as the country faces a 'difficult choice'.
09:15, Sat, Nov 22, 2025 Updated: 09:32, Sat, Nov 22, 2025
Donald Trump has demanded that Ukraine accepts his peace plan (Image: Getty)
Donald Trump's plan to end Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine would not result in peace, but more Russian aggression instead, experts have suggested. The Insititute for the Study of War (ISW) stated in its daily report on the conflict that the US President's proposed pact "would not bring Russia and Ukraine closer to a just and lasting peace but would set conditions for renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine in the future".
The agreement - while permanently banning Ukraine from joining NATO and capping its armed forces at 600,000 troops - would see Ukraine cede territory it still controls in the east of the country provinces, which Russia claims to have annexed. Meanwhile, Russia would give up smaller amounts of land it holds in other regions, it is believed. This would play into Moscow's hands, specialists say. The ISW wrote: "The battle lines set forth by the proposed peace plan would additionally heavily favor another Russian invasion.
This is Europe's "Great Wall of China" - the heavily fortified networks of Ukrainian defenses that took years to build.
And THIS is what the Trump "peace plan" gives to Russia. Opening up the entirety of Ukraine AND EUROPE to the barbaric hordes. pic.twitter.com/t4hIizR6ri
"Any peace deal that requires Ukraine to withdraw from Donetsk Oblast would force Ukraine to withdraw to lines that would largely be indefensible against renewed Russian aggression and likely allow Russia to launch renewed pushes into southern Kharkiv Oblast and eastern Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts from the proposed 'frozen' frontline."
Ukraine has established a so-called "fortress belt" in Donetsk, which earlier reports suggested ran 50 kilometres (31 miles) through the west of the region.
It included trenches, bunkers, minefields, anti-tank obstacles and barbed wire, the BBC reported.
The deal would include “Article 5-like” security guarantees for Ukraine, a reference to the NATO clause that an attack on one member state is an attack on all, according to Axios.
Zelensky says Ukraine faces one of its most difficult moments (Image: Getty)
However, these guarantees would only last for 10 years and need to be renewed, it is thought.
The ISW wrote: "The time limit on security guarantees for Ukraine would allow Russia to reinvade Ukraine with an experienced, rested, and reconstituted military after the guarantees expire."
Ukraine's President Zelensky said yesterday that his country is facing a moment that is "one of the most difficult".
He then described the situation as "complicated", adding: "Ukraine may soon face an extremely difficult choice.
"Either the loss of dignity or the risk of losing a key partner. Either 28 complicated points or the hardest winter yet — and the risks that follow."
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