The Trump peace plan for Ukraine is victory for Putin

How can Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, think that his new peace plan to end the war in Ukraine is ever going to be acceptable to Kyiv, or Europe or anyone who believes that the poor Ukrainians who have suffered so much in nearly four years, deserve justice and security and support. It beggars belief that Witkoff actually believes he has produced a master plan. The master plan has been produced by Moscow. It promises everything Putin wanted: the whole of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine handed over, no Nato membership for Ukraine, ever, a halving of the Ukrainian army and absolutely no international force allowed in Ukraine to monitor a ceasefire. There is nothing in the new plan that hasn't been offered before, and nothing in it to even hint at any sort of concession by Moscow. It's all in Putin's favour. So who is kidding whom? Zelensky cannot accept it even though he has pledged to talk to Trump about it and give it an honest assessment. There is nothing in it for him. It would be the equivalent of total surrender. What about all the lives lost or ruined by Putin's bombs and missiles and artillery? What about the homes and businesses and power stations destroyed? Is the suffering of the Ukrainian people to be rewarded with surrender to the Russian invaders? This is a dangerous moment in history