--- description: President Vladimir Putin unveiled a seven-point peace plan for eastern Ukraine even as NATO claims Russian meddling in the conflict title: Putin Says He Has the Plan for Peace in Ukraine image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7f99c285034cc8f/6986a1f5d0b6f23e1d305f0d/vladimir-putin-ukraine.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Putin Says He Has a Plan for Peace in Ukraine  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 4, 2014 12:06 PM CUT  Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a news conference on Aug. 26, 2014, in Minsk, Belarus Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a news conference on Aug. 26, 2014, in Minsk, BelarusSasha Mordovets—Getty Images  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 4, 2014 12:06 PM CUT Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled [a seven-point peace plan](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/world/europe/ukraine-russia.html?%5Fr=1 "undefined") for eastern Ukraine on Wednesday that he jotted down in a notebook on a flight to a state visit to Mongolia. While Putin’s proposed specifics and enforcement mechanism remain unclear, his first point called for Ukraine and the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine to “end active offensive operations,” the New York _Times_ reports. Putin spoke with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko over the phone on Wednesday, and talks between Kiev and the separatists are planned for Friday. But Putin’s ideas dismissed by Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk as “[deceptive](http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/09/03/uk-ukraine-crisis-ceasefire-idUKKBN0GY0NW20140903 "undefined").” They also came the night before a NATO summit in Wales, where Western leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, are gathering to discuss plans to end the conflict in Ukraine and to draw down NATO’s presence in Afghanistan. NATO says that more than 1,000 Russian soldiers were operating in eastern Ukraine. “What counts is what is actually happening on the ground,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said, according to the [Associated Press](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU%5FUKRAINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-09-04-07-06-43 "undefined"). “And we are still witnessing, unfortunately, Russian involvement in destabilizing the situation in eastern Ukraine.” \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/world/europe/ukraine-russia.html?%5Fr=1 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3267724/putin-russia-ukraine-peace/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3267724/putin-russia-ukraine-peace/"},"headline":"Putin Says He Has a Plan for Peace in Ukraine","datePublished":"2014-09-04T12:06:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:00:11.455Z","description":"But Putin's comments came on the eve of a NATO summit where top Western officials accused Russia of meddling in the conflict in Ukraine","url":"https://time.com/3267724/putin-russia-ukraine-peace/","keywords":["Ukraine","russia","President Barack Obama","Wales","NATO","Russian President Vladimir Putin"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7f99c285034cc8f/6986a1f5d0b6f23e1d305f0d/vladimir-putin-ukraine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7f99c285034cc8f/6986a1f5d0b6f23e1d305f0d/vladimir-putin-ukraine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Vladimir Putin Attends EU Summit In Minsk With Ukrainian President","caption":"Vladimir Putin Attends EU Summit In Minsk With Ukrainian President","creditText":"Sasha Mordovets—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3267724/putin-russia-ukraine-peace/","name":"Putin Says He Has a Plan for Peace in Ukraine"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ukraine: Battle Aftermath","description":"Aftermanth of fighting on the ground in eastern Ukraine shows signs of Russian military presence.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/N8ydhx9F/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-09-05T06:04:34.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/N8ydhx9F.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3267724/putin-russia-ukraine-peace/","duration":"PT41S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3267724/putin-russia-ukraine-peace/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch: Russians Not Happy With Putin's European Food Ban","description":"Why scenes in Russian supermarkets are eerily similar to those of the Cold War","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/F6GfCNvY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-13T23:59:17.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/F6GfCNvY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3267724/putin-russia-ukraine-peace/","duration":"PT2M1S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3267724/putin-russia-ukraine-peace/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```