Sen. Mark Warner calls 28-point plan for Russia-Ukraine truce 'a historically bad deal' [View all]

Source: Politico

11/23/2025 01:03 PM EST
Updated: 11/23/2025 05:41 PM EST


Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said Sunday morning that the Trump administration’s 28-point plan for peace between Russia and Ukraine “would go down, frankly, as a historically bad deal, rivaling Neville Chamberlain giving in to Hitler before World War II.”

Warner, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, told “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream that he fears the plan could embolden Chinese leader Xi Jinping to pursue an invasion of Taiwan if accepted, blasting the proposal as “a total capitulation by Ukraine.”

“Clearly this plan was at least initially laid out as simply Russian input and no Ukrainian input,” Warner said. “Now they’re saying there has been Ukrainian input. Now the president is changing his mind again about whether this is a final offer or not. At the end of the day, we all want to see peace, but we don’t want to see a peace that rewards Vladimir Putin.”

The proposal, which was first reported by Axios, would see Ukraine cede the Donbas region to Russia, in addition to facing limits on the size of its military, per details of the plan obtained by POLITICO. Warner told Bream he’s not sure the deal is something Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “could even survive within his own government.”

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