The first step towards peace will be an agreement between the US and Ukraine

Pentagon: Joint peace plan should become an agreement between the US and Ukraine

Representative of the US Army Dave Butler said that the peace plan should be formalised as agreement between the United States and Ukraine. According to him, it is currently a bilateral document that will become the basis for ending the war.

«First, it will be an agreement between the US and Ukraine. This is a comprehensive plan to end the war,» Butler said.

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He added that the parties have already agreed on «aggressive signing deadlines» of the document.

Meeting between Driscoll and Zelensky

Butler said that the US Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll spent with the President Volodymyr Zelenskyy one-hour one-to-one meeting. The conversation took place during the visit of the US delegation to Kyiv, during which the peace plan was handed over to the Ukrainian side.

According to Butler, the meeting was «informative and focused on the key elements of the agreement».

Context.

At the same time, the White House and the State Department are trying to emphasise that the document is not a «unilateral concession» to Ukraine, and Washington calls it the basis for a «sustainable peace».

The Ukrainian side has not yet publicly confirmed its intention to sign the document in the terms proposed by the United States.