Financial Times: New peace plan includes official status for UOC

His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry and the hierarchs of the UOC. Photo: UOC

The draft of a new peace plan for Ukraine, prepared by a group of American and Russian representatives and delivered to the Kyiv authorities by Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, includes a clause on the status of the UOC, reports the Financial Times on November 19, 2025.

The plan was handed over to Kyiv this week in Miami during a meeting between Witkoff and the current Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and former Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov. It includes 28 points, as reported to FT by two people familiar with the negotiations.

The document, as sources told the publication, specifically provides for the recognition of the Russian language as an official state language of Ukraine and the granting of official status to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

According to them, Witkoff made it clear that he wants Zelensky to accept all the conditions outlined in the plan.

As reported by the UOJ, a delegation of Orthodox Churches in the USA discussed the protection of the UOC with a congressman.

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