🇺🇦☹️Witkoff and Kushner offered Russia three major economic incentives, in late September, in exchange for a partial ceasefire - NYT

The first proposal was to unfreeze billions of dollars in Russian state assets frozen in the West.

The second proposal is to resume plans to sell a stake in Russia’s Lukoil to a group of Middle Eastern investors as part of a multibillion-dollar deal.

The third proposal is to allow Belarus to export potash fertilisers.

Ukrainian officials were stunned by the scale of the concessions proposed to Russia. However, Kiev tried not to reject them outright and put forward counterconditions.

Ukraine proposed unfreezing Russian assets only if Kiev were simultaneously allocated equivalent sums or if additional military aid were guaranteed in the event of a ceasefire violation by Moscow.

Ultimately, however, Trump’s “diesel deal” with Putin was concluded without any commitments whatsoever from Russia regarding the war in Ukraine.

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