US peace plan for Ukraine drew from Russian document, sources say

A leaked Russian memo helped shape Washington’s initial Ukraine peace plan, triggering global backlash and forcing major revisions to the proposal

A Naftogaz gas extraction facility is seen destroyed by a Russian strike in Ukraine, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

The US-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

The Russians shared the paper, which outlined Moscow's conditions for ending the war, with senior US officials in mid-October, following a meeting between US president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington, the sources said.