Nigel Farage breaks silence on Ukraine peace plan and names ‘unacceptable’ Trump demand
Nigel Farage has broken his silence over Donald Trump’s 28-point Ukraine peace plan (Image: GETTY)
Nigel Farage has broken his silence on Donald Trump’s 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, criticising one “unacceptable” demand from the US President. The plan proposed by Mr Trump to end the Russia-Ukraine war has attracted widespread criticism, most notably from Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Ukrainian President had warned that his country faces a choice between losing its dignity and risking the loss of a key partner, as outlined in the peace plan. In a 10-minute address to the nation from outside the presidential palace in Kyiv, he added that “today is one of the most difficult moments in our history”. Reform UK leader Mr Farage has now taken to X to make his feelings clear on the Ukraine peace plan from Mr Trump.
Farage said Ukraine being asked to half the size of its army is ‘unacceptable’ (Image: Getty)
He wrote: “Ukraine being asked to halve the size of its Army is unacceptable.
“I am waiting to see a counterproposal from @ZelenskyyUa’s government.”
According to The Telegraph, Mr Farage’s remarks come as a rare public rebuke of the US President. They represent a significant strengthening of his support for Ukraine, against attempts by the Labour Party to cast him as sympathetic to Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin.
The widely leaked plan includes proposals that Kyiv had previously ruled out, including ceding areas of the eastern Donetsk region that it still controls to Russia, reducing the size of its army to 600,000 troops, and pledging not to join NATO.
It also includes a guarantee from the US that if Russia re-invades Ukraine, it would trigger a “decisive coordinated military response” and the reinstatement of sanctions on Moscow.
Mr Farage’s comments come as Mr Trump himself broke his silence on the 28-point plan.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday (November 21), he said: “We have a plan. It’s horrible, what’s happening. It’s a war that should have never happened,” Mr Trump said. “We think we have a way of getting peace. He’s going to have to approve it.”
The US President was then asked about the criticism received about the 28-point plan. Mr Trump replied: “You mean he [Zelensky] doesn’t like it? He’ll have to like it, and if he doesn’t like it then they should just keep fighting I guess.
“At some point, he’s going to have to accept something. You remember in the Oval Office, not so long ago, I said ‘You don’t have the cards’.
“I inherited this war. I thought he should have made a deal a year ago, two years ago,” he added.
