Overview
- The Kremlin said special envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow next week, but it has not held point‑by‑point talks on a U.S. plan and says several elements need serious analysis, though some aspects are viewed positively.
- President Trump said the U.S. draft has been fine‑tuned from the original 28 points after Geneva and Abu Dhabi meetings, tasked Army Secretary Dan Driscoll with continued talks in Kyiv, and dropped his soft Thanksgiving deadline.
- Ukraine indicated tentative willingness to move forward on the revised framework, with key disputes still centered on territorial terms, security guarantees, limits on forces, and a pathway toward NATO.
- A Bloomberg‑published transcript of an October call showed Witkoff advising Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov on how to approach Trump; Trump defended the exchange as standard negotiating as criticism of Witkoff mounted.
- Fighting continues on the ground, with a Russian drone strike on Zaporizhzhia injuring at least 19 people and damaging dozens of residential buildings, according to regional officials.