“If this were to be confirmed, it would again be Ukraine without Ukraine. I have already said many times that there is a principle with which we, as Czech diplomacy, certainly do not agree,” said Lipavský.
The minister further stated that he takes this plan, which was created by American negotiator Steve Witkoff, among others, very seriously. “Although the information is piecemeal and not very confirmed, it is again the Munich scenario I always warned against,” he added.
Lipavský was alluding to the Munich Agreement, through which Nazi Germany acquired the Czechoslovak Sudetenland in 1938 in exchange for supposed peace. A year later, on September 1, 1939, the Germans attacked Poland, which started the Second World War. After 17 days, the Soviet Union also attacked Poland.
News server Axios reported that Witkoff is working on the plan with Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriyev. He was not discussed with the Ukrainians at all. Witkoff only verbally informed the head of the Ukrainian Security Council, Rustem Umerov, who agreed with several points, but otherwise expressed objections to the plan.
The plan envisages the Ukrainians giving up all of Donbas, which will be ceded to Russia, reducing the army to 400,000 soldiers and giving up certain long-range weapons in exchange for unspecified American security guarantees. The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) called it a complete capitulation, also stating that this plan, approved by President Donald Trump, provides the conditions for further Russian aggression.
