Yermak denies fake news about Trump's "peace plan in 100 days"

After the newly elected US President Donald Trump came to power, discussions about what his "peace plan" for ending the Russian-Ukrainian war might entail intensified, and various "insights", often of dubious reliability, began to circulate online. One of the latest "plans" circulating online even includes specific dates when certain stages of the settlement will allegedly take place within 100 days.

The origin of this "plan" is highly questionable, but its rapid spread has forced even the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, to react. He emphasized that there are no "peace plans" for "100 days" in reality.

Yermak did not specify the source of the "scenario" for ending the war, but emphasized that neither it nor other similar publications correlate with reality.

"There are no "peace plans" for "100 days" in the media in reality. This is only disguised as fake news, which is most often legalized by Russians," the head of the Presidential Administration emphasized.

Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council, also responded to another surge of conspiracy theories about the alleged agreements to end the war. Unlike Yermak, he noted that the original source of the "plan" was allegedly the authoritative British weekly The Sunday Times.

"Everyone is running around with the plan to end the war from The Sunday Times as if it is something tangential to reality, and not just a publication in a regular media outlet for the sake of traffic. There is no access to information and no understanding of the real state of affairs - it is a superficial analysis," Kovalenko said.

At the time of writing this news, OBOZ.UA was unable to find anything similar to the "plan" being spread on the network in either The Sunday Times or the British daily The Times. The most that the authors of these reputable publications with more than a century of history have done in recent days is to briefly describe four possible scenarios for further developments, from the most pessimistic to the most optimistic, in each of which, according to the authors, Trump's role will be decisive.

The same resources that did publish the aforementioned "plan" in Ukraine referred to unspecified "media" that allegedly reported that it had been "handed over to Ukraine through European diplomats." Among the first to disseminate it was the banned in Ukraine publication Strana, which cited "active discussion in political and diplomatic circles of Ukraine in recent days" as the "source" of the so-called "plan" rather than The Sunday Times or any other Western publication.

As for the "plan" itself, the "Russian ears" in it are noticeable from the very first words. In particular, the date of the "end" of the Russian-Ukrainian war is May 9, a "sacred" date for the regime of dictator Vladimir Putin.

In general, this "plan" is full of specific dates. The time "loft" for some events, such as Trump's phone call with Putin or the repeal of the decree banning negotiations with the Russian dictator and Zelenskyy's subsequent meeting with the head of the aggressor state, is specified with an "accuracy" of a couple of months. Other "stages," such as the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, a large "prisoner exchange," or "the official end of the war and the lifting of martial law in Ukraine," are specified by the authors of the "plan" with exact dates.

At the same time, the "plan" allegedly contains a large part of Putin's ultimatum demands to our country, such as the abandonment of intentions to join NATO and Ukraine's neutral status, Russia's actual control over the occupied territories without Ukraine's attempts to return them, the lifting of sanctions against the aggressor state and its return to the European energy market, as well as "an end to the persecution of the UOC-MP and the Russian language," access for pro-Russian parties to participate in elections, etc.

In return, Ukraine will allegedly receive "the preservation of the army with the support of the United States," "accession to the EU by 2023 and post-war reconstruction at the expense of the European Union," and the "suspended" issue of the European peacekeeping contingent.

Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Trump sincerely wants to end the war, but does not yet know how to do so.

According to the Ukrainian president, his American counterpart is indeed able to put an end to Russian aggression "thanks to the strength of the US, sanctions, the strength of the US, the economy." The fact that Trump is currently making not very specific and sometimes contradictory statements is due to the fact that the new US president "does not know all the circumstances right now."

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