US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has hailed “tremendous progress” at talks in Geneva made towards aligning Ukraine’s position with a US-drafted peace plan which left Kiev's western European backers blindsided. Washington and Kiev will continue their discussions on a technical level on Monday, according to the US secretary of state.
Rubio, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, and special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Ukrainian officials at the American mission in Geneva on Sunday as US President Donald Trump’s deadline – set for Thursday – to resolve the conflict with Russia looms.
In a series of statements EU leaders have reportedly outright rejected possible territorial resolutions to the Ukraine conflict allegedly included in the US-drafted peace plan submitted last week, which took the entire west European bloc by surprise.
The leaders of France, Germany and the UK met on Friday with Vladimir Zelensky, critically weakened by festering corruption involving his inner circle. EU defense ministers reportedly spoke on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in South Africa, and the so-called 'coalition of the willing' involving Kiev's main military backers in western Europe, will hold a virtual call on Tuesday.
Moscow has neither confirmed nor commented on the contents of any of the reported ‘plans’ doing the rounds in Geneva. The Kremlin has refused to engage in what it called “megaphone diplomacy,” following a series of vocal declarations of defiance from Brussels on Friday morning.
25 November 2025
03:01 GMT
Russia’s investment envoy and negotiator on Ukraine, Kirill Dmitriev, has blasted the “biased critics” of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan. He condemned those who “profit from the war – not just the deep state/military-industrial complex, but media and opinion makers.”
“War profiteers sabotage peace with unrealistic solutions,” Dmitriev wrote on X.
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The Washington Post has cited an unnamed EU diplomat as saying, “The issue right now is that we don’t really have a clear picture of what is being negotiated between the US and Ukraine.”
The diplomat added that there was a sense of “mystery around the current phase of negotiations,” and that EU leaders were “being met for the moment with some rejections from Americans” when trying to join the talks.
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European Council President Antonio Costa said that the EU must play an active role in determining the fate of frozen Russian funds.
“It is also clear that the issues that concern directly the EU, such as sanctions, enlargement or immobilized assets, require the full involvement and decision by the EU,” he said during a trip to Angola on Monday.
The plan drafted by the US reportedly calls for some frozen assets to be used for “US-led efforts to rebuild and invest in Ukraine.”
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Ukrainian opposition lawmaker Aleksey Goncharenko has said that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky declined an offer to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington this week.
According to Goncharenko, Zelensky cited the need to prepare “a detailed plan” and consult with European leaders before the trip. He added that Zelensky would likely arrive in the US next week.
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