US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant Met with Russian Finance Minister on the Sidelines of the G20 Summit to Discuss US President Donald Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine. This, NV writes, was reported by CNBC journalists Megan Cassella and Fox Business Edward Lawrence on the X social network with reference to a spokesman for the US Treasury Department. The PromPolitInform portal informs.
According to Lawrence, Bessant is promoting Trump’s proposed 28-point settlement plan.
A Treasury Department spokesman told Cassell that Bessant would hold at least 11 bilateral meetings this week as part of the summit, including China, Canada, South Korea, and Japan.
On November 21, 2025, Axios published a draft of a 28-point plan developed by Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff with the participation of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Jared Kushner. The document provided for the recognition of Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions as de facto Russian, the reduction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to 600,000 troops, the legal refusal of Ukraine to join NATO, and the gradual lifting of sanctions on Russia.
The draft at the time drew sharp criticism – Finland called the conditions “dictated by Moscow,” and Zelensky emphasized that the document reflects only the American vision, not the final proposal.
A year later, on August 24, 2026, Zelensky announced that Kyiv, together with Trump’s representatives and European officials, had developed a new joint plan to end the war, which includes a ceasefire, mutual withdrawal of troops from the front line, and the creation of a buffer zone.
Earlier, on August 12, in an interview with CNN, the president called on the United States to become more actively involved in the process, stating that there was currently not enough pressure on Putin. On August 13, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov claimed that Moscow knew nothing about the new proposals submitted by Kyiv to Washington.
