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Home / Ukraine-Russia / U.S., Ukraine agree to change draft of peace plan that Russia favored
Ukraine‑Russia, Diplomacy, Europe and Eurasia

November 23, 2025

U.S., Ukraine agree to change draft of peace plan that Russia favored

“People trying to tear this agreement down just want the war to continue,” said Dan Caldwell, a former Pentagon official who worked on Ukraine issues under the Trump administration. “There is this persistent delusion that the United States has a massive stockpile of munitions that we can dump in Ukraine, that there’s a magic sanctions package that will force the Russians to end the war and that Ukraine has the capacity to continue this war until they achieve total victory.”

“That’s just not the case so the constructive thing to do is consider some of the realistic proposals U.S. officials are putting forward,” he said.

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