Berlin – Rejection of a dictated peace! Germany and other leading supporters of Ukraine reject the 28-point plan for ending the war in its current form. While the current draft provides a basis, further work is needed, according to a joint statement released on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

▶︎ This means: The Europeans want to have their say! Representatives of leading European states are expected in Geneva (Switzerland) on Sunday for a meeting with Donald Trump (79) and Volodymyr Zelenskyy (47).

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (70) had already emphasized on Friday, together with Macron, Starmer, and Zelenskyy, that any agreement affecting European states, the EU, or NATO requires"the approval of the European partners or a consensus among the allies." "Russia has unleashed an illegal war of aggression. Now Russia must finally end this aggression, which has brought terrible human suffering to Europe," Merz said, according to government sources, on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

According to BILD, at least four points of the plan are to be changed.

The Europeans are not impressed by Trump's proposals for dividing up territory. Ukraine is to completely cede strategically important areas like the Donbas to aggressor Russia – as well as Crimea. The demand to downsize the Ukrainian military, which is already hopelessly outnumbered by the Russian army, is also likely to be on the table. The Chancellor will also want to make it clear to Trump that the security guarantee that Russia is supposed to give to Ukraine might not be worth the paper it's written on. After all, something similar was agreed upon in 1994. Ukraine renounced its large arsenal of nuclear weapons – and was then invaded by Russia anyway. Particularly irksome for Merz are Trump's ideas regarding the frozen Russian assets (totaling around 300 billion euros). Trump not only wants to channel 100 billion euros of US investment to the region, from which the US would profit with a 50 percent share. The funds are also intended to be used to establish a new American-Russian investment vehicle. Then Putin would also profit from his war of aggression.