Vladimir Putin is prepared to share sovereignty over Crimea with Ukraine, under a stunning “new peace plan”.
According to sources in Moscow and Kiev, the dictator sent his loyal Interior Minister, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, to the US with new proposals to end the war the dictator had started.
Despite his sanctions, Kolokoltsev was allowed to enter the US, ostensibly to attend a meeting of police chiefs at the UN.
But this was a ruse that allowed him to travel to Washington in a VIP plane from Putin’s presidential fleet to inform the US government of the dictator’s real demands for a peace deal, it is alleged.
Leading Ukrainian TV journalist Dmitry Gordon said he had received details of the package from “our intelligence services,” while Russian Telegram channel Gosdumskaya – which claims to have insider sources in Moscow – separately reported similar demands from Putin.
Vladimir Putin (pictured) is prepared to share sovereignty over Crimea with Ukraine, under a stunning ‘new peace plan’
Ukrainian civilians walk among the rubble in the war-ravaged central street of the city of Toretsk, Ukraine
A bomb crater and residential buildings destroyed by a Russian airstrike in the village of Borova
The package is likely to be unacceptable to Ukraine, which would have to cede large parts of the invaded territory and would not be allowed to join NATO. But compared to Putin’s demands in May, it is a concession.
The Kremlin dictator would thus reap the spoils of war.
The main goal of his [Kolokoltsev’s] “Our arrival was to deliver the Russian peace plan to the American authorities,” said Gordon, who said it was Putin’s plan “to end the war.”
The demands were that Ukraine completely withdraw from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, both of which have now been partially annexed by Russia.
But Russia would transfer the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and the nearby town of Enerhodar to Ukraine.
And he would discuss the possible transfer of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions to Ukraine.
Crimea would become a “special demilitarized administrative region subordinate to both Ukraine and the Russian Federation.”
“Ukraine itself must provide legally binding international guarantees and not block Crimea’s water supply,” Gordon said, reading from a document.
Infantry secures the area for the 3rd Assault Brigade at sunset on July 1, 2024 in the Kharkiv region
Soldiers work in the area as the building and surrounding vehicles lie in ruins after a Russian airstrike on a post office in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region
Putin seized the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea in 2014, promising never to return it to Ukraine.
Ukraine would also gain control over a 100-kilometer-long “demilitarized zone” along the Dnieper River.
Ukraine’s military would be legally capped in size and the country would be barred from joining NATO, a key goal of Zelinsky.
But Putin would not try to block Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
The West would lift sanctions on Russian oil, gas and banks.
Gordon indicated that the army consisted of 350,000 men, but the Gosdumskaya Telegram channel spoke of 150,000.
The UN meeting attended by the Russian minister was a “diversionary tactic,” Gordon said.
Ukrainian soldiers from the Ochi reconnaissance unit launch a Furia drone to fly over Russian positions on the front in Donetsk
A soldier rests as infantry secures the area for the 3rd Assault Brigade at sunset on July 1, 2024 in the Kharkiv region
“The Donetsk and Luhansk regions cannot be brought under Ukrainian control, as they argue that this would lead to the imminent genocide of the population of the area, a third of whom took part in the hostilities against Ukraine,” Gordon said.
There has been no official comment from the US, Russia or Ukraine on the alleged secret contacts surrounding Kolokoltsev’s visit.
Interestingly, Kolokoltsev’s plane was seen next to former US President Donald Trump’s plane when it landed in Washington.
Trump has promised to end the grueling war quickly if he is re-elected, and has said that Ukraine must cede territory in exchange for security guarantees, but that this is not enough for NATO membership.
Kolokoltsev, 63, was interior minister under Putin for 12 years and was responsible for Russia’s police.
