{"id":298509,"date":"2025-11-21T23:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298509\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:54:11","slug":"eu-backs-ukraine-as-trump-sets-ultimatum-on-28-point-peace-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298509\/","title":{"rendered":"EU backs Ukraine as Trump sets ultimatum on 28-point peace plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"170\" data-end=\"382\">European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen issued a broad show of support for Ukraine on Friday, as Kyiv faces a deadline set by US President Donald Trump to accept a 28-point peace plan by next Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFrom day one, Europe has stood with Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression,\u201d von der Leyen said, adding that European leaders will meet on Saturday in the margins of the G20 meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">She said that \u201cwe are clear that there should be nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"620\" data-end=\"811\">Earlier, Trump confirmed he had given Kyiv until 27 November to accept his administration\u2019s proposal to end the war with Russia, saying deadlines can be extended \u201cif things are working well\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThursday is, we think, an appropriate time,\u201d Trump said in an interview with Fox Radio when asked if he had given Ukraine until next Thursday to agree to a 28-point US plan to halt the conflict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/one-of-the-most-difficult-moments-zelensky-addresses-ukraine-amid-controversial-us-peace-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">address to the nation<\/a> published on social media that he will not \u201cbetray\u201d his country as he pushed back on the US plan to end the war on terms favourable to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">However he acknowledged that Kyiv risked losing Washington as an ally and said that he would propose \u201calternatives\u201d to US President Donald Trump\u2019s 28-point plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to three sources cited by Reuters, Ukraine was developing an alternative to the 28-point plan in coordination with Britain, France, and Germany. The other European partners were not involved in discussions on the US plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Russia, meanwhile, would not only gain territory but be reintegrated into the global economy and rejoin the G8, under a draft of the plan, seen by AFP.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1321\" data-end=\"1441\">Moscow appeared confident on Friday, with the Kremlin warning Zelenskyy to negotiate or face further territorial losses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">(cs, sm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen issued a broad show of support for Ukraine on Friday, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-298509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}