Rubio: “Tremendous progress” at Ukraine peace talks. Trump: “Zero gratitude”. Rubio: “Russia’s wish list.” Europe makes counterproposal.

BBC: But “there’s still some work to be done”, Rubio said after meeting Ukrainian and European negotiators in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were “signals that President [Donald] Trump’s team is hearing us”…

CNN: Lawmakers critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war said Saturday they spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio who told them that the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual proposal offering Washington’s positions.

A State Department spokesperson denied their account, calling it “blatantly false…

New York Times: As the officials met, President Trump wrote on social media that Ukraine’s leadership had “EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE” for American military aid and other support since Russia’s full-scale invasion. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine soon posted his own message, saying his country was “grateful for everything that America and President Trump are doing for security…

The Guardian: European countries proposed a radical alternative Ukraine peace plan on Sunday that omits some of the pro-Russia points made in the original US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected…

CNN: It remains to be seen if Moscow would sign on to the terms being hammered out between Washington and Kyiv. Trump’s original 28-point peace plan had been widely considered favorable to Russia and was met with concern from European allies…

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Sen. Mark Warner calls 28-point plan for Russia-Ukraine truce ‘a historically bad deal’

Key elements in Trump’s 28-point peace proposal and why much of it is unacceptable for Ukraine



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