{"id":147384,"date":"2025-11-22T01:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/147384\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:47:14","slug":"europe-pushes-back-on-trump-peace-plan-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/147384\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe pushes back on Trump peace plan for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump<\/a> indicated Friday he had set a deadline of November 27 for Ukraine to accept his administration\u2019s plan aimed at ending the conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of deadlines, but if things are working well, you tend to extend the deadlines. But Thursday is, we think, an appropriate time,\u201d Trump said in an interview with Fox Radio. <\/p>\n

Under the plan, Ukraine would give up a swathe of eastern territory to Russia and slash the size of its army, according to a draft obtained by AFP.<\/p>\n

Kyiv would also pledge never to join Nato and would not get the Western peacekeepers it has called for, although European warplanes would be stationed in Poland to protect Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Trump said if the fighting continued, the Ukrainians would still end up losing the territories they would have to cede to Russia if the plan were validated.<\/p>\n

\u201cSay what you want, they were very brave,\u201d he said about Ukrainian forces fighting the Russians.<\/p>\n

But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> will \u201chave to like\u201d a US plan to end the war with Russia that calls for Kyiv to cede territory, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll have to like it, and if he doesn\u2019t like it, then you know, they should just keep fighting,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. \u201cAt some point he\u2019s going to have to accept something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin \u201cis not looking for more war\u201d, the Republican leader responded when asked about the possibility of Russia attacking other countries in Europe after it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

Trump also stated Putin was \u201ctaking punishment\u201d for the conflict going on for nearly four years and added, it \u201cwas supposed to be a one-day war\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ukraine<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy pushed back on the American plan, saying he would not \u201cbetray\u201d his country over the 28-point document that is being seen in Kyiv as favourable to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

He largely rejected the proposals, saying \u201cwe did not betray Ukraine [at the start of the war in 2022], we will not do so now\u201d.<\/p>\n

But he warned \u201cUkraine may face a very difficult choice: either the loss of dignity or the risk of losing a key partner\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said he would propose alternatives.<\/p>\n

France, Germany, Britain<\/p>\n

France\u2019s President Emmanuel Macron<\/a>, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called for a solution that \u201cfully\u201d involves Kyiv.<\/p>\n

In a phone call with Zelenskyy, they said \u201call decisions with implications for the interests of Europe and Nato require the joint support and consensus of European partners and Nato allies\u201d.<\/p>\n

EU<\/p>\n

EU<\/a> foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said any workable plan \u201cneeds Ukrainians and Europeans on board\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to understand that in this war, there is one aggressor and one victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we haven\u2019t heard of any concessions on the Russian side.\u201d<\/p>\n

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen insisted on Friday that Ukraine must have a central role in deciding its future and said European leaders would hold discussions on a US peace plan on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are clear that there should be nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,\u201d she said on X after talks with Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

She said that \u201cas next steps, European leaders will meet tomorrow in the margins of G20 and then in Angola at the EU-AU meeting\u201d next week. Several European leaders will be at the G20 summit in Johannesburg this weekend.<\/p>\n

Italy<\/p>\n

Italy<\/a> Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke with Merz, after which her office said they \u201creaffirmed the ultimate goal of achieving a just and lasting peace, in the interest of all of Europe\u201d, adding that \u201cother elements of the plan were deemed worthy of further exploration\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hungary<\/p>\n

Hungary<\/a>\u2019s Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday said the coming weeks will be key to stopping the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis peace plan includes propositions on which the Russians and the Americans have already held preliminary discussions,\u201d Orban said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re at a decisive moment, the next two or three weeks will be crucial.\u201d<\/p>\n

UN<\/p>\n

UN<\/a> chief Antonio Guterres said any peace solution should \u201cabide by the resolutions of the General Assembly that clearly indicated that the territorial integrity of Ukraine… must be respected\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Updated<\/p>\n

– Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump indicated Friday he had set a deadline of November 27 for Ukraine to accept his administration\u2019s plan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9092,3458,1863,5842,2024,6446,2082,71,48879,98670,42,66403,98669,36424,26477,43,90,2892,2170,29056,26520,18661,20701,39545,8229,40,38,41,39,2179,3461],"class_list":["post-147384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-against","tag-allies","tag-back","tag-calling","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-for","tag-from","tag-greater","tag-guardedly","tag-headlines","tag-involvement","tag-kyiv","tag-largely","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-on","tag-peace","tag-plan","tag-proposed","tag-pushed","tag-pushes","tag-russias","tag-terms","tag-they","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trump","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}