Closing summary
US President Donald Trump accused Ukraine’s leadership of having “zero gratitude” for US efforts to end the war as talks were underway in Geneva between delegations from the US, Ukraine, and some of its European allies.
His comments came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there was now an understanding that the 28-point US-proposed plan could take into account Ukraine’s national interests (revisions are expected to be made to the provisions after negotiations).
The plan, details of which have been leaked, has widely been seen to favour Russia as it endorses some of Moscow’s key maximalist positions.
There is particular concern in European capitals about provisions that Ukraine agree to not join Nato and also limit the size of its armed forces.
Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, asked where Trump’s “peace plan” came from, after reports suggested an apparent admission by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, that the text was originally drafted by Moscow.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he is “sceptical” the deal can be reached by Trump’s Thursday deadline, which may be extended after the US president said it was not his “final offer”. Merz rejected the provision in the plan that says Russia would rejoin the G8.
The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said Ukraine’s borders could not be changed by force. A limit on the country’s armed forces would leave it “vulnerable to future attack”, she said.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said he would have a phone call with Vladimir Putin on Monday to discuss efforts to bring about an end to the war and said he will ask the Russian president to restart a deal for the safe passage of grains via the Black Sea.
The Russian defence ministry said this morning that Russian troops captured three villages across two regions of Ukraine: the villages of Tykhe and Odradne in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Petrivske in the Donetsk region.
Thanks for following along today. We are now closing this blog. You can read a wrap-up of today’s events in this story.
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Shortly after Donald Trump accused Ukraine’s leadership of apparently not showing enough gratitude, former Ukrainian defence minister and national security council secretary Rustem Umerov said he expects his country’s delegation in Geneva to make progress today on the deal.
Umerov, who is among the representatives from Ukraine in Switzerland for talks today, wrote on X this afternoon:
Our current proposals while still not finalized include many Ukrainian priorities.
We appreciate our American partners working closely with us to understand our concerns to reach this critical point and we expect to make more progress today.
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