DISINFO: US peace proposal marks the imminent end of the Ukrainian project against Russia
SUMMARY
Russia has prevailed against the Western campaign and the Ukrainian project that was fabricated to achieve its strategic defeat. But its stakeholders refuse to admit their capitulation; they want to see it through to the end. Perhaps it's time to wake up and tell them that the end is quite near. Someone has lost control of this broken toy called Kyiv. There's a sense of urgency; plans are being proposed by the United States, rejected by the European Union and Kyiv, and it seems no one is bringing any sanity to the situation, except for Russia, which watches from the sidelines the chaos and the ambitions of those investors who are recalculating how to salvage a failure that was stillborn in Maidan exactly 12 years ago today.
RESPONSE
This is an attempt to exploit the news around the 28-point draft peace plan unveiled in November 2025, in order to advance multiple anti-Ukrainian disinformation narratives, such as about the war in Ukraine as a proxy conflict aimed to destabilise Russia, the Maidan protests as an anti-Russian coup d’etat, the inevitability of a Russian victory, Ukraine and the EU as warmongering powers opposed to peace, and Ukraine as singularly corrupt country.
The Russian Federation initiated the war in 2014 with its illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula, to the point of sending Russian troops to the battlefield. This aggression escalated in 2022 when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war is solely the result of these actions, which led to international efforts to assist Ukraine for its self-defence, in line with Article 51 of the UN Charter. By accusing the EU and other partners of Ukraine of wanting the war to continue, this disinformation story is blaming them for the prolongation of the conflict, thus deflecting from Russia’s sole responsibility for its sustained brutal and unprovoked aggression against its neighbour.
While corruption is a real issue in Ukraine, these allegations conveniently omit that it is Ukrainian institutions who are exposing these cases. No similar anti-corruption initiatives exist in Russia, which is ranked 13 positions worse than Ukraine in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perception Index.
Russia is very far from achieving a total victory in Ukraine. Data shows that Russia’s military is struggling to make real gains on the ground, having occupied only an additional 1% of Ukrainian territory since 2022. At the moment this disinformation story appeared, Russia controlled one-fifth of Ukraine including Crimea, and around 88% of the Donbas region, much less than at the beginning of the invasion. At the actual rate of advance, UK military intelligence estimated that Russia would need around 4.4 more years only to take over the whole Donbas at a cost of almost two additional million casualties. Another analysis shows that occupying all Ukraine would take over 230 years and dozens of millions of Russian casualties.
On 23 November 2025, representatives of the United States and Ukraine met in Geneva for discussions on the U.S. peace proposal. The discussions showed meaningful progress toward aligning positions and identifying clear next steps. Ukraine and the United States agreed to continue intensive work on joint proposals in the coming days. They will also remain in close contact with their European partners as the process advances. Both sides reiterated their readiness to continue working together to secure a peace that ensures Ukraine’s security, stability, and reconstruction.
In an address, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine stressed that:
“Ukraine has never wanted this war, and we will never be an obstacle to peace”.
European leaders welcomed the initial draft of the 28-point Ukraine peace plan, stating that it can serve as the basis of a negotiation, but more work is needed.
Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission emphasised:
“Any credible and sustainable peace plan should first and foremost stop the killing and end the war, while not sowing the seeds for a future conflict. We have agreed on the main elements necessary for a just and lasting peace and Ukraine's sovereignty. (...)
We will continue our work together with Ukraine, our Member States, the Coalition of the Willing and the US to make real progress towards peace.”
The European Union has continuously been committed to achieving a peaceful resolution to the war in Ukraine, ensuring that Kyiv’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that Russia holds all the cards while Ukraine badly needs a respite, that Putin’s proposal shows his greatness by giving the defeated a chance to negotiate, that Ukraine cannot dictate the peace terms because it lost the war, that the Nazi Zelenskyy regime is within months of falling, that UK and France are unable to accept defeat in Ukraine, or that Ukraine and Europe have lost in the Ukrainian conflict.
Pro-Kremlin outlets falsely portray the Euromaidan revolution in 2013-2014 as a coup. This is one of the most prominent pro-Kremlin disinformation tropes and has been well documented (see here for a full debunk of this allegation).