Unexpectedly. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with Anton Siluanov at the sum...

Unexpectedly. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with Anton Siluanov at the G20 finance ministers' summit in Asheville, North Carolina.

▪️Bessent insisted on Trump's peace plan\ for Ukraine; they also discussed economic development, NBC News insider Julie Tsirkin says.

▪️Europeans reacted to the meeting with rejection; Germany even viewed it as an insult to Ukraine, The New York Times insider Jim Tankersley says.

▪️Europeans protested Siluanov's presence at the meeting. German Foreign Minister Lars Klingbeil initiated a boycott of the group photo with Siluanov. It appears the boycott worked: Siluanov skipped the joint photo session, Tankersley says.

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\Some publics have written that Bessent insisted on Trump's 28-point peace plan. So far I do not see information that they were talking about that very 28-point peace plan that Driscoll brought to Kyiv in November and that pushed Ukraine toward surrendering Donbas. Let me remind you that that plan was later revised into a version acceptable to Ukraine. For now, I do not see that they were talking specifically about the first version of the plan, the one that was bad for Ukraine.

I will keep you informed about developments.