Trump will reveal Ukraine war peace plan over next three days as details emerge about possible peacekeeping force

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Monday that he would reveal the contents of his proposed peace plan for the Ukraine war this week — which could include European troops in the battle-torn country to enforce the proposed cease-fire.The US expects Russia and Ukraine to respond to a peace deal after Trump on Friday threatened to end America’s involvement in the cease-fire talks after months of Washington discussions with both warring parties.“I will be giving you a full detail over the next three days,” Trump told reporters.“But we had very good meetings on Ukraine, Russia … We’ll see how that works.”While the terms are not yet set in stone as Kyiv and Moscow internally discuss the plan, one senior administration official told The Post they may include deploying European forces to Ukraine should an end to the war and cease-fire be reached.“The hard part is what does a security force look like — we’re calling that a ‘resiliency force,'” the official said.

“The resiliency force is part of the security guarantees that the Ukrainians want and we hope they get.”Also on the table is a separate peacekeeping force to monitor any cease-fire, which would look like a “joint commission” of Russians, Ukrainians and a third, non-NATO country watching the frontlines to ensure both sides are putting their weapons down.The US may be involved, as well — not as “boots on the ground, but the monetary force, along with a third party,” the official said.The proposal may also include the US’ recognition of Ukraine’s Crimea as Russian territory, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.Trump’s first administration was opposed to recognizing Crimea, which Russia annexed after it invaded Ukraine in 2014, as under Moscow’s sovereignty.So, too, has every other US president since the annexation.

Kyiv has previously drawn a red line on recognizing any annexed territory as Russian.While The Post could not independently verify the report, a sen...