Russian government sources also indicated that the Kremlin does not support the 28-point peace plan proposed by the US president.
The Russian opposition publication "Verstka" reported on November 21 that diplomatic sources and sources close to the Kremlin have said that the provisions in Trump's 28-point plan should be seen more as a basis for a future agreement, rather than a document that Putin would formally sign.
This was revealed in its daily analysis of the war in Ukraine by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
The Russian president continues to point out that his demands have not changed significantly since the Alaska summit in August 2025. Putin held a Security Council meeting on November 21 and explicitly addressed the US-proposed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Putin said that the Kremlin had received a copy of the proposed agreement and that US President Donald Trump had already offered a peace plan to Russia before the Alaska summit. Putin said Russia agreed with the proposals he and Trump discussed at the Alaska summit.
Other Russian officials, including Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov and Russian chief negotiator and CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev, also responded to Trump's 28-point peace plan, reiterating Russia's commitment to the principles of the Alaska summit.
The exact parameters of the Alaska summit discussions between Trump and Putin remain unclear, but Putin used the meeting's press conference to reiterate his demand that any peace agreement must eliminate the "root causes" for war.
This is a euphemism used by the Kremlin against NATO expansion and the push for the removal of the current Ukrainian government.
Russian authorities are creating information conditions for rejecting Trump's 28-point peace plan for Ukraine.
The plan proposed by the White House meets many, but not all, of Russia's persistent military demands. Putin and other prominent Russian officials continue to reiterate publicly that Russia will achieve its military goals by military means.
On November 21, Putin reiterated that Russia is open to achieving peace through diplomacy, but that Moscow is "happy" to continue pursuing its military goals by military means.
On November 20, Putin visited the command post of Russia's Western Group of Forces and stated that the most important task is to achieve Russia's military goals, which, according to Putin, the "Motherland" and "the people of Russia" have put before the Kremlin.
At the meeting, Russian Chief of the General Staff General Valery Gerasimov told Putin that Russian forces would continue their mission to capture the remaining parts of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions in accordance with existing military plans.
These statements reinforce the belief among the Russian people that they should expect the Kremlin to fully occupy all four regions.
The Kremlin has so far failed to set conditions under which the Russian people would accept anything less than a complete Russian victory in Ukraine.
The Kremlin has also rejected the ceasefire and negotiations proposed by the United States in recent months, while Ukraine has consistently demonstrated a willingness for dialogue and compromise.
The proposed peace plan will not bring Russia and Ukraine closer to a just and lasting peace, but will create the conditions for renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine in the future.
Putin and the Russian military commanders continue to promote the false thesis that Russian victory is inevitable in order to force Ukraine and the West to agree to Russian demands.
Russian military bloggers and Ukrainian officials have refuted many of the claims of success by Russian commanders.
Russian successes on the battlefield are not inevitable, and the Kremlin is stepping up its efforts to exaggerate recent Russian military actions in order to persuade Ukraine to surrender territory in the Donetsk region that Russian forces are unlikely to seize.
Ukrainian forces continue to counterattack in the direction of Pokrovsk, where the situation remains serious and dynamic.
The Russian military command appears to be redeploying relatively elite forces in the direction of Pokrovsk, possibly in response to the slowed pace of the Russian offensive.