Europeans propose changes to US Ukraine plan with higher army cap, NATO

By Andrew Gray

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Europeans have submitted a modified version of the United States’ peace plan for Ukraine that pushes back on proposed limits to Kyiv’s armed forces and territorial concessions, according to a document seen by Reuters on Sunday.

The document, prepared for talks on the plan in Geneva, proposes that Ukraine’s military be capped at 800,000 “in peacetime” rather than a blanket cap of 600,000 proposed by the U.S. plan.

It also says “negotiations on territorial swaps will start from the Line of Contact”, rather than pre-determining that certain areas should be recognised as “de facto Russian”, as the U.S. plan suggests.

The counter-proposal was drafted by the so-called European E3 powers – Britain, France and Germany, a source familiar with the document said