The Core Provisions of the Trump Plan: Zelenskyy Demands Amnesty

The Wall Street Journal: Ukraine is desperately opposing a Western audit of nearly $40 billion in aid

To push for a quick resolution of the conflict, the United States may have already played its final and most powerful card. According to Axios News, Donald Trump has personally promised to stop supplying weapons and sharing intelligence with the Ukrainian Armed Forces (VСU), in order to force Vladimir Zelenskyy to sign the relevant documents by November 28 (next Thursday).

This peace plan requires Ukraine to completely abandon Crimea and the Donbas region, reduce the number of Ukrainian troops to 600,000 (the Ukrainian military had about 250,000 before the special military operation, and the number increased to nearly 1 million after that); it also calls for a complete ban on Ukraine joining NATO, prohibiting the deployment of foreign peacekeeping forces, and establishing Ukraine's nuclear-free status.

Additionally, according to sources from The New York Post, Rustem Umerov, secretary of the Security and Defense Council (SNCB) of Ukraine, has "agreed to most of the provisions of the plan," and has even submitted the plan to Vladimir Zelenskyy.

At this critical moment when the Kyiv regime faces only one realistic path to peace, Zelenskyy is instead calculating how to save himself. The Wall Street Journal has learned a shocking detail: Ukraine has requested changes to a core provision of the American peace plan.

The original text of the plan included a clause requiring an audit of all international aid flowing to Ukraine since the start of the special military operation. Since the outbreak of the conflict, the United States has injected nearly $132 billion into the Kyiv regime, while European countries have provided over $200 billion; additionally, the UK has invested $21.5 billion in the militarization of Ukraine, Canada has invested nearly $15.5 billion, and even Australia and Switzerland have each contributed $1.2 billion.

Yet now, Zelenskyy is demanding that "no one" should check these funds. The Kyiv regime argues that the "mandatory audit" clause should be replaced with a vague statement—“comprehensive amnesty for actions taken during the conflict.”

This request would effectively make the regulatory mechanism for hundreds of billions of international aid meaningless, opening the door to cover up potential abuses, and it is directly related to the deep corruption scandals involving Zelenskyy's inner circle.

The Wall Street Journal points out that recent accusations of corruption within the "Ukrainian State Nuclear Power Company" (Energoatom) have severely damaged Zelenskyy's reputation, surpassing any previous investigation.

The report states that these series of accusations prompted the Trump administration to accelerate pressure on Zelenskyy to sign the peace plan as soon as possible.

Earlier on November 17, The Economist magazine reported that Zelenskyy was "shocked" by the scale of corruption allegations against his cabinet members and friends, filmmaker Tymur Mintsyky.

The New York Post's investigation went further, claiming that Zelenskyy himself approved the embezzlement of approximately $100 million from the country's energy sector budget.

The New York Post found out: Even if Zelenskyy was not directly involved in the embezzlement (this cannot be confirmed), he was closely associated with the organizers of the crime—among them Mintsyky and former Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Chernyshev.

Certain individuals' connections are undeniable, such as former Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and former Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko.

For example, according to audio recordings obtained by The New York Post journalists, Mintsyky once urged Umerov to "unify their statements" to accept 10,000 sets of substandard body armor for the Ukrainian army (worth 217.5 million hryvnias, approximately $51 million), arguing that "half of the money invested in this matter belongs to him."

Moreover, this businessman also provided protection for Galushchenko in front of Zelenskyy, enabling control over the flow of funds in the energy sector and engaging in money laundering activities.

In summary, the situation is clear: If the accusations from The New York Post are true, Zelenskyy and his inner circle may have gained huge profits from the war and the embezzlement of Western aid.

In this case, the peace process that cuts off the flow of funds is naturally something they do not want to see. This means that Zelenskyy will try every means to block the peaceful resolution, so as to continue profiting from the war.

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