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Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking to the media following a meeting with the Coalition of the Willing allies in London in October (Kirsty Wigglesworth\/PA)<\/p>\nHe said the US wanted to end the war \u201csoon\u201d but suggested Washington was flexible with its timeline rather than sticking to the Thursday deadline President Donald Trump had mentioned before.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir Starmer and other leaders had pushed back against the US-drafted plan, raising concerns about proposals to make Kyiv limit its armed forces and give up territory and its path to Nato membership.<\/p>\n
They called Washington\u2019s plan \u201ca basis\u201d that required further work in a joint statement on Saturday after talks at the G20 in South Africa.<\/p>\n
The UK\u2019s national security adviser Jonathan Powell and his German and French counterparts were also in Geneva for talks on the proposal.<\/p>\n
Mr Rubio on Sunday would not go into detail on which points are still under discussion, but acknowledged that a \u201cfinal end\u201d to the war would require Ukraine to feel \u201csafe\u201d from being invaded by Russia in future.<\/p>\n
He said Mr Trump was \u201cquite pleased\u201d at the progress, after the US president had earlier posted online that Ukraine\u2019s leadership had expressed \u201czero gratitude\u201d for his country\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel very optimistic that we can get something done here, because we made a tremendous amount of progress,\u201d Mr Rubio told reporters, adding that talks would continue on Monday.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking to the media following a meeting with the Coalition of the Willing allies in London in October (Kirsty Wigglesworth\/PA)<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky said in a post on X that there are \u201csignals that Trump\u2019s team is hearing us\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir had his second call with the US president in as many days on Sunday, and No 10 said the leaders agreed that \u201cwe all must work together at this critical moment to bring about a just and lasting peace\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Rubio said earlier that US and Ukrainian teams were \u201cmaking some changes\u201d in the hope of \u201cnarrowing the differences\u201d between the US and Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The 28-point plan is said to have been negotiated by US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Kremlin representative Kirill Dmitriev, with Kyiv and European allies left out of the process.<\/p>\n
The US State Department dismissed as \u201cblatantly false\u201d claims from senators that Mr Rubio told them the plan was a \u201cwish list\u201d from Russia.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump\u2019s only comment on the talks was an earlier Truth Social post in which he said:\u00a0\u201cUkraine \u2018leadership\u2019 has expressed zero gratitude for our efforts and Europe continues to buy oil from Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Zelensky later wrote that he is \u201cgrateful to every leader and to everyone around the world who supports Ukraine and our principled stances\u201d.<\/p>\n
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander earlier said that allies of Ukraine need to \u201cfind a way to secure that ceasefire and open up space for meaningful negotiations\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir Starmer has pointed to the importance of an article five security guarantee \u2013 Nato\u2019s mutual defence provision under which an attack on one member is an attack on the entire bloc \u2013 in the US plan.<\/p>\n
This and his one-on-one discussions with Mr Trump on Ukraine make it clear to that the US leader wants a \u201cjust and lasting peace\u201d, the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said the US wanted to end the war \u201csoon\u201d but suggested Washington was flexible with its timeline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-589591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115601439115819923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}