22.11.2025

Russia should not agree to a new US proposal to achieve peace with Ukraine, as it is a “provocation” that will not lead to a real end to the war, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma’s defense committee, Alexei Zhuravlev, has said. “The entire conflict can be resolved only in the case of our unambiguous victory at the front and Ukrainian capitulation… With any other outcome, the confrontation will only be postponed,” he wrote.

From Zhuravlev’s point of view, “the American idea is to leave Ukraine as a deterrent for Russia.” “Truncated both territorially and militarily, it will still pose a significant threat to us, and we will have to keep an army on our western borders. The U.S. will thus have its hands untied for the forthcoming confrontation with China. I hope that the Russian side will not agree to such provocations,” the deputy said. He added that in general, “it would be strange to equate” the U.S. plan with Russia’s demands, “no matter how the U.S. representatives try to portray that signing such a treaty” is in its interests.

It should be noted that the U.S. plan is rejected by Europeans. Representatives of the leading European states intend to discuss the U.S. peace plan with the U.S. and Ukraine on Sunday, November 23. German government circles confirmed to DPA that the meeting will take place in Geneva.

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