We agree with Prime Minister Mark Carney, European leaders and Japan that, while supporting U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, his 28-point peace plan needs work.

Trump’s warning that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has until Thursday — U.S. Thanksgiving — to accept it is unrealistic given that in its current form it gives Russian President Vladimir Putin most of what he wants.

That is, the annexation of new territory in the Donbas region which Ukraine currently holds in addition to Crimea, which Putin invaded and annexed in 2014; reducing the size of Ukraine’s military by almost a third to 600,000 and guaranteeing Ukraine will never join NATO.

reported Friday that Putin said Trump’s plan “ could lay the foundation for a final peace se

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