Ending the Russia-Ukraine war moved back into the headlines last week with press reports of a 28-point U.S.-Russian peace plan.

The plan’s heavy slant toward Russian positions sparked immediate alarm in Kyiv and other European capitals, as did President Donald Trump’s suggestion of a short deadline by which Ukraine had to agree.

A flurry of diplomacy over the weekend seems to have improved Ukraine’s position.

The British, French, and German leaders issued a counterproposal that would protect points of key interest to Kyiv.  U.S.-Ukrainian negotiations in Geneva were termed productive by both sides and produced an “updated and refined peace framework.”

However, other points remain to be settled by U.S. and Ukrainian officials, and Moscow will look with disfavor on any new framework that moves to meet Ukrainian concerns.

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