President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after talks with a top U.S. Army official on Thursday he was ready for “honest” work with Washington on a plan to end the war in Ukraine, while European allies pushed back against punishing concessions to Russia.

According to the U.S.-backed plan, seen by Reuters, Kyiv would be required to give up the entire Donbas region and significantly downsize its military, conditions long seen by Ukraine’s allies as tantamount to capitulation.

The plan says Ukraine would have to limit its army to 600,000 troops and that it would “receive robust security guarantees,” without providing further details.

It makes several concessions to Russia, including that Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk will be recognized as de facto Russian by the United States and that Ukrainian for

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