The plan offers “reliable security guarantees” from the US but they are vague, and short‑term preferential access to the European market. It does not bar EU membership, but does bar Ukraine from joining Nato. Any future deployment of western troops to Ukraine, as envisaged by Starmer and Macron’s “coalition of the willing”, would also be banned. It requires Ukraine to recognise Russian as an official state language, give amnesty for war crimes and grant formal status to the Russian Orthodox church.
