European leaders have drafted a counter-proposal to the US peace plan, which also offers major concessions to Vladimir Putin . Ukraine and its European allies were rocked by revelations of a secret US-Russian peace deal.

The details of the 28-point plan were revealed in a major scoop by the news website Axios last week. Under its terms, Kyiv must cede control of the Donetsk region and cut the size of its army by half to 600,000, as well as being barred from NATO. Russia would be further rewarded by being readmitted to the G7 - a move that would allow it to rebuild its creaking economy.

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Critics have blasted the deal, saying

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