{"id":589680,"date":"2025-11-23T23:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589680\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T23:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:49:15","slug":"donald-trump-warned-peace-plan-set-to-fail-as-russian-people-conditioned-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589680\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump warned peace plan set to fail as Russian people \u2018conditioned&#8217; | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has been warned that his deal to end <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia-ukraine-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the war in Ukraine<\/a> is set to be rejected by Moscow, as Russians are conditioned against nothing less than &#8220;full victory&#8221;. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote in <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/understandingwar.org\/research\/russia-ukraine\/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-22-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its daily report of the conflict<\/a> that officials and state media &#8220;continue to set information conditions to reject the US-proposed 28-point peace plan, indicating that the Kremlin is actively conditioning the Russian people to not accept anything less than a full victory in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee First Deputy Head Alexei Chepa stated that any plan must adhere to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>\u2019s full demands. He also reiterated that Moscow\u2019s objective is for any peace settlement to address the alleged \u201croot causes\u201d of its war in Ukraine. This is a &#8220;deliberately vague term that the Kremlin has long used as shorthand for its original war justifications and demands, such as the destruction of Ukrainian sovereignty and the NATO alliance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The official also &#8220;implied that the proposed peace plan offers more concessions to Russia than previous proposals but is still insufficient to address Russia\u2019s maximalist demands&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>State Duma Defense Committee Member Andrei Kolesnik claimed that Russia will not give up any territories in Ukraine that it has illegally annexed, which &#8220;indicates that the Kremlin is uninterested in making any territorial compromises&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He also repeated a &#8220;false narrative&#8221; that a Russian victory in Ukraine is inevitable, so Ukraine should submit to Russia\u2019s full demands now.<\/p>\n<p>Russian Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) Head and Duma Deputy Leonid Slutsky claimed that President Trump&#8217;s peace plan is a \u201cgood basis\u201d for a settlement but added that Russian advances in eastern Ukraine are \u201cequally compelling arguments\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Experts suggested that this implyies that Russia &#8220;remains committed to continuing its war in Ukraine on the battlefield&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the ISW stated that Russian state TV channels and milbloggers highlighted similar narratives, &#8220;implying that Russia is not interested in any peace negotiations until it accomplishes its goals on the battlefield&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The ISW concluded that it &#8220;continues to assess that a Russian victory is not inevitable, however, and that Ukraine and the West can leverage several key Russian weaknesses to force the Kremlin to negotiate and make real concessions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/keir-starmer\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keir Starmer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> agreed today to work together at a \u201ccritical moment\u201d for Ukraine as the US called talks taking place in Geneva on its peace plan the \u201cmost productive\u201d so far.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir\u2019s call with the US president was the second in as many days, and a Downing Street spokesperson said they discussed \u201cvarious aspects\u201d of the high-level talks focusing on the peace plan in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey agreed that we all must work together at this critical moment to bring about a just and lasting peace,\u201d No 10 said.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders spoke on Sunday as US, Ukrainian and European officials, including Sir Keir\u2019s national security adviser Jonathan Powell, held meetings.<\/p>\n<p>US secretary of state Marco Rubio and Ukrainian chief negotiator Andriy Yermak said \u201cgood progress\u201d had been made at talks so far as they updated reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rubio said it had been \u201cprobably the most productive and meaningful meeting so far in this entire process\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the teams are now working on suggestions and \u201cmaking some changes\u201d in the hope of \u201cnarrowing the differences\u201d between the US and Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has been warned that his deal to end the war in Ukraine is set to 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