KHARKIV, Ukraine and LONDON — President Donald Trump’s particular envoy Steve Witkoff is because of journey to Moscow on Monday to current a peace plan proposal to Russian President Vladimir Putin in what is anticipated to be a vital check for the Trump administration’s efforts to finish the battle in Ukraine.
Witkoff is travelling to Putin a day after collaborating in talks with a high-level Ukrainian delegation in Florida, aimed toward looking for a deal to finish the battle that Ukraine and Russia may settle for.
There’s little expectation Putin will comply with a deal. The Russian chief has already signalled he won’t compromise, final week making hardline remarks the place he repeated his calls for that Ukraine withdraw from territory he claims and saying it’s “pointless” to barter with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He advised the Kremlin believes it’s making adequate progress on the battlefield and is content material to attend till Kyiv concedes to its situations.
Zelenskyy is anticipated to be in Paris at present to fulfill with French President Emmanuel Macron, with whom he’s anticipated to debate the negotiations with the U.S. Zelenskyy and Europe look like signaling solidarity on a day when the U.S. and Putin are anticipated to dominate the airwaves.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner meet with a Ukrainian delegation in Hallandale Seaside, Florida, U.S., Nov. 30, 2025.
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Zelenskyy on Sunday stated his emissaries in Florida had reported again the “major parameters” of what had been mentioned, together with “some preliminary outcomes.” However the full particulars had been nonetheless to be relayed, he stated.
“I stay up for receiving a full report from our group throughout a private assembly,” Zelenskyy said on social media.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on Sunday after collaborating within the talks with Ukraine the following steps within the negotiations had been “delicate,” including that “it’s difficult, there are quite a lot of shifting components.”
There was “one other get together concerned right here that’ll need to be part of the equation — and that’ll proceed later this week when Mr. Witkoff travels to Moscow, though we’ve additionally been in contact in various levels with the Russian aspect,” Rubio stated.
“Now we have a fairly good understanding of their views as effectively,” Rubio stated.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a gathering with Hungary’s Prime Minister on the Kremlin in Moscow on Nov. 28, 2025.
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Officers from Ukraine and the US each stated the about 2-hour assembly at Shell Bay Golf Course in Hallandale Seaside had been productive, however neither aspect launched particulars about what agreements had been made and there’s no indication a breakthrough was made on probably the most troublesome points that will enable an finish to the battle.
The assembly mentioned a revised 19-point peace plan that was developed every week in the past throughout another round of negotiations in Geneva between the U.S. and Ukraine. These talks reworked an earlier 28-point plan that the Trump administration had offered and that had alarmed Kyiv and European allies as closely favoring Russia.
Officers on Sunday didn’t launch particulars about whether or not the proposal had once more been up to date.
A supply conversant in the talks stated they’d mentioned safety ensures for Ukraine, in addition to together with the destiny of billions of {dollars} of Russian belongings frozen by Western nations and potential elections in Ukraine. The difficulty of the frozen belongings was a “key” one for the Russians, the supply stated.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the Nationwide Safety of Ukraine speak to the media Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, in Hallandale Seaside, Fla.
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On the essential problem, although, of Russia’s demand that Ukraine give up unoccupied territory within the Donbas area, there was no signal of progress. The supply stated Russia was nonetheless unwilling to debate any type of ceasefire and Ukraine will not be keen to cede territory.
Rubio stated the talks had been “a really productive and helpful session the place further progress was made.”
“I feel there’s a shared imaginative and prescient right here that this isn’t nearly ending the battle, which is essential; it’s about securing Ukraine’s future, a future that we hope might be extra affluent than it’s ever been,” he informed reporters after rising from the talks with Rustem Umerov, the secretary of Ukraine’s Nationwide Safety and Protection Council, who had been the lead negotiator from Kyiv.
“We labored — we already had a profitable assembly in Geneva, and at present we continued this success,” Umerov stated, including that there could be “later levels” to the talks.
