Ukraine’s negotiator Rustem Umerov said in Geneva on Sunday afternoon that the current version of the Trump peace plan “although still in the final stages of approval, already reflects most of Ukraine’s key priorities.” Umerov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, added
We look forward to further progress throughout the day.
His remarks come after U.S. President Donald Trump took to Truth Social earlier today to express frustration with the continuation of the war, blast his predecessor, Joe Biden, and to harshly criticise Ukraine’s stance on the U.S. peace plan. The president said
I inherited a war that should have never happened, a war that is a loser for everyone, especially the millions of people that have so needlessly died. Ukraine ‘leadership’ has expressed zero gratitude for our efforts, and Europe continues to buy oil from Russia.
Earlier in the day, Trump spoke on the phone with Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and Finnish president Alexander Stubb, Stubb told AFP.
President Trump answered the phone at 5 o’clock in the morning on Sunday in the United States, which just shows that he’s working around the clock to find a peace agreement in Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine,
Stubb said in Johannesburg.
Trump’s proposal to end the war in Ukraine, which includes several hardline Russian demands, has met resistance from Kyiv and its European allies, who are trying to negotiate changes to the plan.
As delegations were holding talks in Switzerland, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that the U.S. peace plan may include “Ukrainian perspectives.”
Currently, there is an understanding that the American proposals may include a number of elements based on Ukrainian perspectives and critical for Ukrainian national interests,
he said on social media.
Speaking at the G20 summit in South Africa, German chancellor Friedrich Merz said he was not convinced that the solutions sought by President Trump could be implemented by the November 27 deadline. The chancellor said he remained cautiously hopeful that at least a first step could be taken by Thursday. “If all 28 points listed are too much … then I would at least like to try to find one point on which agreement can be reached,” he said, without giving further details.
Also in Johannesburg, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Sunday that he would hold a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. “I believe that after these talks, I will have the opportunity to discuss the outcome with our European partners, Mr. Trump, and other friends,” he said.
On November 19th, Erdoğan hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ankara and urged Ukraine and Russia to return to peace talks in Istanbul, where three rounds of negotiations were held earlier this year. However, Zelensky left the meeting with little progress.
Just days later, details of Trump’s 28-point peace plan emerged, taking Kyiv and its European partners by surprise, as it would effectively force Ukraine to cede territory, scale back its armed forces, and pledge never to join NATO.
Ukrainian, European, and Canadian national security officials, as well as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, gathered in Geneva, Switzerland on Sunday to discuss the proposal that surfaced on Friday.
