Trump denies imposing deadline for "peace deal" on Ukraine
US President Donald Trump has denied imposing strict timelines for a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, saying the priority is to stop the killings rather than to meet calendar dates.
Source: Trump during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One
Details: Journalists directly asked Trump whether the previously reported Thanksgiving deadline of 27 November was still relevant.
Quote: "I don't have a deadline. You know what the deadline for me is? When it [the war – ed.] is over. And I think everybody's tired of fighting at this moment. They're losing too many people."
Details: He added that negotiations are ongoing and that his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow next week to meet with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
Background:
- The Financial Times earlier reported, citing sources, that the White House had set Kyiv a strict ultimatum to agree to the peace plan by Thanksgiving, celebrated in the United States on 27 November.
- However, Politico later reported that the American approach changed after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined the talks in Geneva. Trump's team dropped the hard deadline and adopted a more flexible stance on the original "28-point plan", shifting the focus to concluding discussions "as soon as possible" rather than by a specific date.
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