WSJ reports that Trump is reviewing Ukraine peace plan options that cede all occupied territory to Moscow, suspend NATO expansion, and create DMZ

The Wall Street Journal reports that Donald Trump is now inundated with competing proposals from advisers to implement his campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine by Inauguration Day. 

The U.S. president-elect reportedly has yet to approve a specific plan to bring both sides to the negotiating table, but the WSJ’s sources say all the proposals on his desk break from the Biden Administration’s approach of letting Kyiv dictate when peace talks should begin. 

According to the WSJ, the options before Trump uniformly recommend freezing the war, “cementing Russia’s seizure of roughly 20 percent of Ukraine” and forcing Ukraine to suspend its pursuit of NATO membership for at least 20 years. The war’s current front line “would essentially lock in place,” and both sides would agree to an 800-mile demilitarized zone guarded by European peacekeepers and no U.S. troops or soldiers from a U.S.-funded international body, such as the United Nations.