{"id":308883,"date":"2025-11-23T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308883\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:05:08","slug":"u-s-and-ukraine-hold-peace-deal-talks-as-lawmakers-and-allies-voice-concerns-over-russian-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308883\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Ukraine hold peace deal talks as lawmakers and allies voice concerns over Russian ‘wish list’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has landed in Switzerland for meetings with Ukrainian and European officials on Sunday as U.S. efforts to coordinate a Ukraine peace push<\/a> were clouded by concerns over the origins of the proposal.<\/p>\n

The 28-point plan suggests that Russia could be granted more territory than it holds, stipulates limits on Ukraine\u2019s army, and prevents Kyiv from ever joining NATO \u2014 concessions that amount to a near-mirror of Moscow\u2019s long-standing demands.<\/p>\n

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in an X post Sunday that European leaders were ready to work on the plan \u201cdespite some reservations,\u201d but added: \u201cBefore we start our work, it would be good to know for sure who is the author of the plan and where was it created.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a press conference Saturday, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators said Rubio had told them <\/a>that the existing text being discussed was not in fact a U.S. initiative, nor the administration\u2019s position, but rather a Russian proposal given to Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.<\/p>\n

The plan \u201cwas not the administration\u2019s plan\u201d but a \u201cwish list of the Russians,\u201d Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said Rubio told them.<\/p>\n

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., asserted that \u201cnone of the information that was released on this particular proposal came back from the administration,\u201d following his call Saturday afternoon with Rubio.<\/p>\n

A State Department spokesperson later denied the senators\u2019 account, calling it \u201cblatantly false,\u201d while Rubio has asserted that the U.S. did produce the proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe peace proposal was authored by the U.S. It is offered as a strong framework for ongoing negotiations,\u201d Rubio wrote on X late Saturday night. \u201cIt is based on input from the Russian side. But it is also based on previous and ongoing input from Ukraine.\u201d <\/p>\n

A senior Trump administration official told NBC News previously that the plan was developed in consultation with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev and Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s \u201cso much confusion who actually authored this and who\u2019s actually agreed to it, that we\u2019re already seeing people starting to try to walk away from it,\u201d retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges told NBC News on Sunday. <\/p>\n

This confusion is \u201ceither by design for the Russian side, or it\u2019s a reflection of incoherence inside the administration,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

The White House previously described the plan as \u201cthe best win-win scenario, where both parties gain more than they must give,\u201d but the mixed messages from Washington \u2014 combined with nervous allies demanding clarity \u2014 have deepened doubts about what the U.S. is actually trying to achieve.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has set Thanksgiving as the deadline for Ukraine to agree to the plan, but later said the plan was not his “final offer.” <\/a> <\/p>\n

Rubio and other U.S. representatives are meeting in the Swiss city of Geneva on Sunday with Ukrainians and Europeans.<\/p>\n

Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in a post on X Sunday after a meeting with European security officials: “We are in a very constructive mood. Overall, a series of meetings in various formats is planned for today. We continue working together to achieve a lasting and just peace for Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

European leaders met on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa on Saturday and said in a joint statement that the plan requires additional work<\/a>, adding that they are \u201cconcerned by the proposed limitations on Ukraine\u2019s armed forces, which would leave Ukraine vulnerable to future attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters Saturday that \u201cwe\u2019ll be in a better position to know\u201d about the viability of the effort once officials have worked through \u201cquite a bit of detail\u201d in Geneva.<\/p>\n

But Tusk\u2019s comments captured a broader European unease, and it remains unclear whether the Geneva talks will resolve the confusion or deepen the divisions.<\/p>\n

European leaders have \u201conce again, been confronted with the consequences of their own passivity,\u201d Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House, a London-based think tank.<\/p>\n

\u201cEurope has not been willing or able to insert itself into the conversation on the future security of the continent in any meaningful manner,\u201d he told NBC News. \u201cThey continue to be blindsided by diplomatic initiatives that happen without their involvement.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secretary of State Marco Rubio has landed in Switzerland for meetings with Ukrainian and European officials on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-308883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}