Ukraine Agrees To ‘Core Terms’ of Trump Peace Plan while Russia Continues Launching Major Attacks.

Top Ukrainian security official Rustem Umerov said that Ukraine had reached an understanding on the “core terms” of the U.S. Peace Plan during the discussions in Geneva.

“We appreciate the productive and constructive meetings held in Geneva between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations, as well as President Trump’s steadfast efforts to end the war”, Umerov, who is Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said in a post on X.

Umerov, who met Steve Witkoff in Miami when the early draft of the plan was coming together, said he looked forward to organise a visit for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington to “complete final steps and make a deal with President Trump”.

An Insight into the Proceedings:

• U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is meeting with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi to discuss the Ukraine peace plan. Ukraine’s GUR chief Kyrylo Budanov is also in Abu Dhabi at the same time.

• The initial 28-point plan, viewed positively by Russia, was “refined” after U.S.- Ukraine talks in Geneva on Sunday to address Kyiv’s concerns that the first draft was too heavily in Moscow’s favour and crossed its red lines. The latest draft under discussion now has 19 points.

• There were intense Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, with 460 drones and 22 missiles, leaving several civilians dead and dozens more injured, including in the capital Kyiv. Russia said a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on its territory had also left civilians dead and wounded.

• NATO’s Romania said it detected at least two Russian drones that had breached its airspace during the latest aerial attack on Ukraine, and it scrambled fighter jets in response.

• European allies, upset with Trump’s original plan, which they played no part in drafting, produced their own counter-proposal, and said no provisions in any final framework that affects the EU or NATO could be agreed upon without the consent of members of both. Russia dismissed the European plan as a non-starter.
• Russia said it is aware that the original Trump draft plan has undergone changes, but it has not seen the new version. It had no updates to give on the ongoing Abu Dhabi talks. Dmitry Peskov spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, called the first version the peace plan “a very good basis for negotiations“.

• President Donald Trump has set a Thanksgiving deadline for a peace framework to be agreed. He wrote on Truth Social on Monday: “Is it really possible that big progress is being made in Peace Talks between Russia and Ukraine??? Don’t believe it until you see it, but something good just may be happening“.

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