{"id":11216,"date":"2025-11-26T22:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/zelensky-ready-to-advance-peace-as-trumps-envoy-to-visit-moscow\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:27:20","slug":"zelensky-ready-to-advance-peace-as-trumps-envoy-to-visit-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/zelensky-ready-to-advance-peace-as-trumps-envoy-to-visit-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky ready to advance peace as Trump&#8217;s envoy to visit Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption><span>U.S. President Donald Trump (2nd L) welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, Oct. 17, 2025. (Xinhua\/Hu Yousong)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that the peace plan negotiated by Ukraine and the United States in Geneva could be developed into &ldquo;deeper agreements,&rdquo; as U.S. President Donald Trump is sending his special envoy to Moscow next week.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>KIEV, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) &mdash; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that the peace plan negotiated by Ukraine and the United States in Geneva could be developed into &ldquo;deeper agreements,&rdquo; as U.S. President Donald Trump is sending his special envoy to Moscow next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his evening address, Zelensky said he had discussed the plan with Ukraine&rsquo;s negotiating team. &ldquo;The principles in this document can be developed into deeper agreements. And it is in our shared interest that security is real,&rdquo; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also voiced hope for continued active cooperation with the U.S. side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators reached an agreement in principle on most aspects of the U.S.-proposed peace plan, Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine&rsquo;s presidential office, said earlier in the day. But the plan was significantly modified from the original 28 points, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Zelensky hopes to discuss territorial issues directly with Trump, Yermak said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span>The 28-point draft plan aimed at ending the Ukraine crisis has been trimmed to a 19-point framework drafted by the United States and Ukraine on Sunday in Geneva, multiple media outlets reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump said Tuesday in a Truth Social post that his team has made &ldquo;tremendous progress&rdquo; over the past week, and the original 28-point peace plan &ldquo;has been fine-tuned, with additional input from both sides.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&ldquo;There are only a few remaining points of disagreement,&rdquo; Trump said, noting that he has directed his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week in the hope of finalizing a peace deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&ldquo;At the same time, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will be meeting with the Ukrainians,&rdquo; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump said he looks forward to hopefully meeting with Putin and Zelensky soon, but only when the peace deal is finalized or in its final stages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Moreover, the U.S. president backed away from a Thursday deadline for Ukraine to agree to the U.S.-backed peace plan. &ldquo;The deadline for me is when it&rsquo;s over,&rdquo; Trump told reporters on board Air Force One as he flew to Florida for the Thanksgiving holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span>Trump also noted that Moscow had agreed to some concessions, without detailing them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both the U.S. and Ukrainian sides confirmed &ldquo;progress&rdquo; after their talks in Geneva on Sunday. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that he remained &ldquo;very optimistic&rdquo; about reaching an agreement within a &ldquo;very reasonable period of time very soon.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, &ldquo;(some) require higher-level decisions and consultation,&rdquo; Rubio added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to U.S. media, the initial 28-point plan, widely seen as favorable to Russia, includes major territorial concessions by Ukraine, ruling out Ukraine&rsquo;s NATO bid, and sharp reductions in its armed forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A Ukrainian diplomat told reporters that the territorial issue remained a major sticking point in the peace plan, meaning a final deal was far from certain despite accords on various specific points. &ldquo;These are really tough questions for us,&rdquo; the diplomat said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that an amended peace plan for Ukraine must reflect the &ldquo;spirit and letter&rdquo; of understandings reached between Putin and Trump at their Alaska summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, Putin said the U.S.-proposed peace plan &ldquo;could form the basis for a final settlement,&rdquo; although &ldquo;this text has not been discussed with us in any substantive way.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&ldquo;We are interested in achieving our goals through political and diplomatic means, and consistently adhere to this position,&rdquo; Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday, adding that Russia remains fully open to negotiations on the Ukraine crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Also on Tuesday, Zelensky urged European leaders to hash out a framework for &ldquo;deploying a reassurance force&rdquo; to Ukraine and to keep backing Kiev. He made the remarks Tuesday at a video conference of the &ldquo;Coalition of the Willing,&rdquo; a group of about 30 countries supporting Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After the video conference, French President Emmanuel Macron said that France and Britain will launch a workshop to coordinate security guarantees for Ukraine with the involvement of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>France and other European Union members are also working on a plan to provide financial support for Ukraine, Macron said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The ongoing Ukraine crisis has lasted for almost four years since it broke out in February 2022, causing heavy human and economic losses.&nbsp; <\/span><span>&#9632;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Zelensky ready to advance peace as Trump&rsquo;s envoy to visit Moscow<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump (2nd L) welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, Oct. 17, 2025. (Xinhua\/Hu Yousong) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that the peace plan negotiated by Ukraine and the United States in Geneva could be developed into &ldquo;deeper agreements,&rdquo; as U.S. President Donald&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/zelensky-ready-to-advance-peace-as-trumps-envoy-to-visit-moscow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Zelensky ready to advance peace as Trump&#8217;s envoy to visit Moscow&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}