{"id":15169,"date":"2025-11-22T11:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=15169"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:05:29","slug":"trump-envoys-issue-ultimatum-to-ukraine-to-sign-peace-deal-by-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=15169","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoys issue ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The Trump administration has told Ukrainian and European officials there is little room to negotiate on its plan to end Russia\u2019s war, as the US heaps pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign a deal drawn up with Moscow\u2019s help by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>US army secretary Daniel Driscoll told European ambassadors and western officials at a volatile meeting in Kyiv late on Friday that he was \u201coptimistic that now is the time for peace\u201d \u2014 but warned that Washington would show little flexibility. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not negotiating details,\u201d he said, according to a senior European official in the meeting at the Kyiv residence of US Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires, Julie Davis. A top European official described the tone of the meeting as \u201cnauseating\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>News of the Kyiv discussion, coupled with President Donald Trump\u2019s comments on Friday that Ukraine would \u201chave to like\u201d Washington\u2019s deal, prompted late-night discussions among European leaders gathered for the G20 meeting in Johannesburg about how to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for the Trump whisperers to start shouting,\u201d said one official briefed on the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday that \u201cUkraine\u2019s friends and partners will meet in the margins of the G20 summit to discuss how we can secure a full ceasefire and create the space for meaningful peace negotiations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will discuss the current proposal on the table and, in support of President Trump\u2019s push for peace, look at how we can strengthen this plan for the next phase of negotiations,\u201d Starmer added.<\/p>\n<p>European leaders as well as the prime ministers of Japan, Canada and Australia will meet at 1.30pm local time to discuss their strategy on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s meeting in the ornate mansion in Kyiv\u2019s historic Podil district came a day after the US\u2019s 28-point plan surfaced. The discussion went sideways quickly, according to European officials present. <\/p>\n<p>Davis told the group gathering in the mansion that \u201cas much as we can support Ukraine continuing the war, there are limits\u201d, said one ambassador present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are strong indications that Russia has a strong industrial base and it is a matter of time until Ukraine has to cut a deal,\u201d she said, according to the ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll showed up late and laced his comments with profanities, according to people present. \u201cWe need to get this shit done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US Armed Forces love Ukraine and stand behind Ukraine, but it is the honest US military assessment that Ukraine is in a very bad position and now is the best time for peace,\u201d Driscoll continued. <\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201csecurity guarantees are part of this\u201d US deal and would be discussed with European and Ukrainian leaders in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The senior European official at the meeting said Davis and Driscoll insisted that president Zelenskyy sign the deal before the American Thanksgiving Day holiday, on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a narrow window for peace \u2014 president Trump wants peace now,\u201d Driscoll said, according to a readout provided to the Financial Times by a senior western official present. \u201cThe more cooks in the kitchen, the harder it is to handle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a television address earlier on Friday, Zelenskyy warned the nation that it risked having to choose between the loss of US support or the loss of its dignity in a harsh peace with Russia. <\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian leader\u2019s comments came a day after Driscoll presented him with the 28-point plan that crossed several of Kyiv\u2019s red lines and were depicted by European allies as a \u201ccapitulation\u201d to Moscow. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow Ukraine may find itself facing a very difficult choice \u2014 either loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner,\u201d Zelenskyy said. The country faced \u201cone of the most difficult moments in our history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded to Zelenskyy\u2019s comments in the Oval Office on Friday, saying the Ukrainian president would \u201chave to like\u201d the US plan. \u201cAt some point, he\u2019s going to have to accept something.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The president also referred to his confrontation with Zelenskyy in the White House in February, when vice-president JD Vance accused the Ukrainian leader of ingratitude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou remember not so long ago, right in the Oval Office, I said \u2018you don\u2019t have the cards\u2019,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI thought he should have made a deal a year ago, two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EU ambassadors and officials at the Kyiv residence meeting described the messages from the US as \u201cshocking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A US official in the room said the meeting had been \u201cpositive, straightforward and respectful\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a good exchange, secretary Driscoll answered as many questions as time allowed as completely as possible,\u201d the US official said. A spokesperson for the US embassy did not respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>One western official said the diplomats at the meeting believed the US was using Zelenskyy\u2019s political weakness amid a domestic corruption scandal to try to push a deal on Ukraine quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Some EU ambassadors in the meeting framed the US proposal as a strategic victory for Russia. Davis countered that the loss of 1mn soldiers \u2014 the US estimate for how many Russians have been killed since Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion in 2022 \u2014 did not constitute a win.<\/p>\n<p>As the meeting came to a close, the EU ambassadors argued that instead of cutting a deal now, more pressure on Russia was needed. The Americans said what was on offer was the best Ukraine could expect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out this is even worse than we thought,\u201d said another senior European official briefed on the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of the Kyiv meeting prompted hastily arranged bilateral talks between European leaders gathered in Johannesburg for a G20 summit.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings that went on into the night included Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, and focused on finding a way to convince Trump to slow down his demand for Ukraine to accept the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed peace plan also drew criticism from some Republican leaders. <\/p>\n<p>Senator Mitch McConnell said that Putin had \u201cspent the entire year trying to play president Trump for a fool\u201d, adding that \u201crewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America\u2019s interests\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Lauren Fedor in Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f4112e32-b742-4e91-9c51-aab08067e53e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has told Ukrainian and European officials there is little room to negotiate on its plan to end Russia\u2019s war,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump envoys issue ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday | inFundPros<\/title>\n<meta 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