US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan

Ukraine’s Andriy Yermak and US secretary of state Marco Rubio after discussions in Geneva on a US proposed peace plan. Photograph: Martial Trezzini/AP

The Guardian, 23 Nov. 2025

Olexiy Haran, a professor of comparative politics at the Kyiv-Mohyla academy and research director of the Democratic Initiatives foundation, said Ukrainians overwhelmingly rejected the Trump document and would support the European one. “Freezing the frontline is a difficult compromise for us, but one a majority would back,” he said, but that there was no support for giving land to Russia.

“Any peace deal isn’t about Zelenskyy. Ultimately it’s about the Ukrainian people and their understanding of Ukraine as a nation,” Haran said. “We definitely can’t allow all these crazy points in this Trump so-called peace plan.”

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