Trump pushes Ukraine to accept peace plan before November 27 deadline

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday set November 27 as the deadline for accepting a 28-point peace plan proposed by his administration to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

"I've had a lot of deadlines, but if things are working well, you tend to extend the deadlines," Trump told Fox News Radio. "But Thursday is it – we think an appropriate time."

Ukraine was losing land and "will lose in a short period of time," he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday on X, following a phone call with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, that the Ukrainian side "agreed to work together with the U.S. and Europe at the level of national security advisors to make the path to peace truly doable."

In an address to the nation, Zelenskyy said: "Ukraine could now face a very difficult choice: either the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner. Either the difficult 28 points, or an extremely difficult winter."

The next week will be very challenging and full of events, Zelenskyy said, noting that he plans to propose alternatives to amend the U.S. plan and that Ukraine's interests must be taken into account in the document.

Zelenskyy stressed that he will present arguments, persuade and offer alternatives, but will not give the enemy any reason to claim that Ukraine does not want peace.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia is ready for a substantive discussion of the details of a new U.S.-proposed 28-point peace plan on Ukraine.

Putin said Russia has received the plan through existing channels of communication with the U.S. administration. It could form the basis of a final peace settlement, but the text has not been discussed with Russia in detail, he added.

Putin noted that Moscow is ready for "peace talks and peaceful resolution of problems," as well as "a substantive discussion of all the details of the proposed plan."

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted Friday that Ukraine must have a central role in deciding its future and said European leaders would hold discussions on the U.S. peace plan on Saturday.

"We are clear that there should be nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine," she said on X after talks with Zelenskyy.

She added that "as next steps, European leaders will meet tomorrow in the margins of G20 and then in Angola at the EU-AU meeting" next week.

(With input from Xinhua and AFP)