American diplomats said Donald Trump was trying to achieve peace ‘with an incredible sense of momentum’
Luke Harding in Kyiv and Andrew Roth in Washington
The cautious response from Ukraine’s presidential administration followed angry denouncements of the plan by some Ukrainian officials who called it “absurd” and unacceptable.
But American diplomats said Donald Trump was trying to achieve peace “with an incredible sense of momentum”.
His administration was pursuing an “aggressive timeline” with the Ukrainians to reach an agreement, they added, and wanted to achieve this in the “shortest possible” period.
