US president signals potential room for adjustments after Zelenskyy says proposals force Ukraine to choose between national dignity and losing the US
Donald Trump said on Saturday that his Moscow-drafted “peace plan” was “not my final offer”, after a furious backlash from Ukrainians who described it as reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler.
The US president told reporters during brief remarks at the White House: “We’d like to get to peace. It should’ve happened a long time ago … we’re trying to get it ended, one way or the other we have to get it ended.”
Ukrainian and American officials will meet in Switzerland on Sunday for talks to discuss the plan. Security officials from France, Britain and Germany are expected to join them in Geneva.
In the build-up to the talks, US senators told US media that secretary of state Marco Rubio contacted them while en route to Geneva to clarify the nature of the leaked plan. He said the proposal “was not the administration’s plan” but a “wish list of the Russians”, according to independent Maine senator Angus King, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
