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The Zelensky-Kushner-Witkoff phone call and the misunderstanding between Ukraine and the US...
On November 16, two days before Axios revealed the "28-point plan" for peace in Ukraine, Donald Trump's advisers, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, read the entire document line by line to Zelensky during a phone call.
The White House had previously stated that Rustem Umerov, Zelensky's national security adviser, had been informed of the plan and even approved it, something Umerov has publicly denied. Axios reported that Umerov had only been briefed "in broad terms," while a planned meeting between Witkoff and Zelensky on November 19 in Turkey to discuss the document in detail was canceled after the Ukrainian president did not take the proposal seriously.
Now Axios reveals that Zelensky personally participated in the November 16 phone call, and that there was a major misunderstanding: the Ukrainians thought it was an exchange of ideas, while the Americans considered it a genuine official proposal. After the November 19 meeting was canceled, the American side sent Dan Driscoll, the Secretary of the Army, to Kiev on November 20 to physically deliver the draft to Zelensky. The Ukrainian president accepted the document as a basis for negotiations because under such circumstances he could not refuse.
The story of the plan begins on October 22, during a flight from the Middle East to Miami, where Witkoff and Kushner began discussing the Ukraine issue. That same day, Trump imposed tough sanctions on Russian oil for the first time.
On October 25 and 26, Witkoff and Kushner met for several hours in Miami with Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s envoy and head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund. Dmitriev told Axios on November 17 that they had been working to put down in writing what Trump and Putin had discussed in Alaska. But it was a U.S. official, on November 18, who informed Axios of the existence of the 28-point plan and the topics it covers: peace in Ukraine, security guarantees, European security and future U.S.-Russia-Ukraine relations.
Although the State Department initially told worried Europeans that this was not “Trump’s plan,” according to Axios, Trump, his Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were fully briefed. At that point, the US president demanded that Ukraine sign the document before Thanksgiving.
It was JD Vance's idea to involve Dan Driscoll, Secretary of the Army and his former Yale classmate, to personally deliver the plan to the Ukrainian side. Driscoll had planned a broader military visit for discussions on defense technology and strategy, but the trip was expedited because of this development.
Some officials within the Trump administration, including Rubio, believed things were moving too fast. Driscoll’s visit seemed like the start of “real peace talks” with Ukraine. Although Trump’s philosophy, as outlined in “The Art of the Deal,” is that out of chaos comes agreement, the situation was getting too murky. So the president sent Rubio, Witkoff, Kushner, and Driscoll to Geneva.
In Geneva, Rubio told the Ukrainians that he would not be satisfied unless they publicly stated that the plan was not simply a Russian proposal and that Ukraine had contributed to it, according to Axios. The Americans were irritated by the information being given to the American media by Ukrainian sources; while Kiev agreed to make more positive statements.
During the Geneva meeting, the 28-point plan was treated as a draft, not a final document. The Americans were open to incorporating elements from the Ukrainian counter-proposal. But behind closed doors, the meeting was very tense, despite Rubio’s description of it as “the most productive yet.”
Meanwhile, from the White House, Trump publicly accused the Ukrainians of a lack of gratitude. There is talk that a Trump-Zelensky meeting could take place this week or next week.
Starting today and for the rest of the week, the White House has announced that Trump will be in Florida for Thanksgiving celebrations. A US official said there are no plans for a meeting, as there is still no clear outcome from the peace negotiations. The two drafts, the American and the Ukrainian, seem to remain very far apart, despite Trump's optimistic statements on his social platform on November 24. / Pamphlet
Putini sotem eshte Hitleri i djeshem ,atij nuk duhet ti behet asnje leshim . Mbas Ukraines ai do sulmoje vendet Balltike ,ai ka synim te zgjeroje me tej ish BRSS . ShBA dhe Europa duhet te jene ne nje mendje ,asnje leshim diktatorit Putin , ti tregojne atij forcen se si diktator ai nuk njeh demokracine pk vetem forcen . Cdo leshim qe mu d ti bejne sot diktatofit Putin do jete me pasoja te medha neser per stabilitetin dhe paqen boterore.