The U.S. administration\u2019s framework \u2014 which came with an aggressive Thanksgiving deadline and threats to cut off aid and intelligence to Ukraine unless it accepted \u2014 caught Ukraine and its European allies off guard, setting off a weekend of urgent negotiations in Geneva among Washington, Kyiv and European partners.<\/p>\n
Putin spoke by phone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan about the plan on Monday, and, according to the Kremlin, said that Trump\u2019s first proposal was a \u201cgood base for the future deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVladimir Putin noted that these proposals, in the version we have seen, are in line with the discussions at the Russian-American summit in Alaska and, in principle, can be the basis of a final peaceful settlement,\u201d the Kremlin said in its readout of the call.<\/p>\n
The gap between the two sides\u2019 preferred endgames remains vast, and largely incompatible. Moscow is pushing for a settlement that locks in and expands its territorial gains, while Kyiv and European capitals insist on securing Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the discussions in Switzerland as major progress, while noting there was \u201cstill some work to be done\u201d before finalizing a proposal. <\/p>\n
Trump, who criticized Kyiv on Sunday for showing \u201czero gratitude,\u201d nevertheless struck an optimistic tone about the Swiss talks. \u201cSomething good just may be happening,\u201d he wrote in a social media post Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. administration\u2019s framework \u2014 which came with an aggressive Thanksgiving deadline and threats to cut off aid…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7838,69,1802,50,257,273,67,274,3656,275,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-401645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-diplomacy","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-military","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-vladimir-putin","16":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","17":"tag-war-in-ukraine","18":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115605598634517109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}