{"id":47337,"date":"2025-11-21T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47337\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:23:12","slug":"us-pushes-ukraine-to-sign-peace-deal-by-thanksgiving-or-lose-intel-weapons-access-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47337\/","title":{"rendered":"US pushes Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving — or lose intel, weapons access: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration is insisting that Ukraine\u2019s government agree to a much-criticized plan to end<\/a> Russia\u2019s invasion by the Thanksgiving holiday \u2014 or it will cut off intelligence sharing and shipments of weapons to the beleaguered European nation, according to a new report.<\/p>\n

The 28-point plan<\/a>, details of which were reported by The Post on Thursday, was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. <\/p>\n

Reuters reported Friday that Kyiv has come under greater pressure from Washington to sign on to the deal than at any point in the 33-month-old conflict. <\/p>\n

A serviceman of the National Police Special Purpose Battalion prepares shells for a howitzer as he prepares to fire towards Russian troops on November 20, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The framework calls for US recognition of the entire eastern Donbas region \u2014 which has been under attack by Moscow for 11 years \u2014 as Russian territory<\/a>, while battle lines will be frozen in two other war-torn regions, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.<\/p>\n

Most controversially, Ukraine would have to limit its armed forces to 600,000 troops, enshrine permanent neutrality by pledging never to join NATO, and codify that ban in its own charter. <\/p>\n

NATO, in turn, would have to promise not to station troops in Ukraine \u2014 though European fighter jets would be based in neighboring Poland.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to stop the war and want Ukraine to pay the price,\u201d one source described the plan to Reuters, while a European official called the framework \u201cquite concerning\u201d to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

President Trump meets with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House on February 28, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n

European Council President Antonio Costa told reporters at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa of the U.S. proposals: \u201cThe European Union has not been communicated\u00a0any plans in [an] official manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, a senior US official told The Post that Ukrainian officials \u2014 including top Zelensky adviser\u00a0Rustem Umerov\u00a0\u2014\u00a0had given \u201cpositive\u201d feedback and \u201cagreed to the majority of the plan\u201d following discussions with Trump\u00a0special envoy Steve Witkoff in Miami late last month.<\/p>\n

Umerov on Friday denied that version of events, claiming to AP that he only organized meetings and prepared the talks with Witkoff.<\/p>\n

Rescuers transport the body of a person found under debris of an apartment building which was hit by a Russian missile strike on November 19, 2025. via REUTERS<\/p>\n

Also Friday,\u00a0German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called Zelensky to reassure him of their continued support.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The foursome \u201cwelcomed the commitment to the sovereignty of Ukraine and the readiness to grant Ukraine solid security guarantees,\u201d according to a statement by Merz\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe agreed to continue pursuing the aim of protecting vital European and Ukrainian interests in the long term,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThat includes the line of contact being the point of departure for an agreement and that the Ukrainian armed forces must remain in a position to defend the sovereignty of Ukraine effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Trump met with Russian President Putin in Alaska on August 15, 2025. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Zelensky is in the middle of perhaps his most vulnerable political period since the war began, with Russian forces advancing on\u00a0the northeastern cities of Kupiansk and Lyman and fierce fighting surrounding the logistics hub of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.<\/p>\n

Closer to home, Zelensky has been mired in a corruption scandal involving the embezzlement of\u00a0$100 million from Ukraine\u2019s energy sector through kickbacks paid by contractors.<\/p>\n

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After investigators publicized their findings, Zelensky dismissed two top officials and imposed sanctions on close associates. <\/p>\n

One person implicated in the scheme, Tymur Mindich, is a partner in a media production company that Zelensky co-owned before his election in 2019.<\/p>\n

The site of a Russian aerial bombing on November 21, 2025, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Mindich has reportedly fled the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Under the US framework<\/a>, Ukraine would be required to hold elections within 100 days of the agreement taking effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elections have been barred by the Ukrainian constitution due to the declaration of martial law for wartime.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Caitlin Doornbos and Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration is insisting that Ukraine\u2019s government agree to a much-criticized plan to end Russia\u2019s invasion by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,87,9045,1069,9046,9047,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-47337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-trump","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-ukraine-war","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}