Overview
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ukrainian negotiator Andriy Yermak reported "enormous" progress in Geneva and said a shared framework is within reach.
- The joint draft trims an earlier 28-point outline to 19 points after European corrections, with several contentious items bracketed for later leader-level decisions.
- Trump’s initial Thanksgiving deadline has been softened, and a potential Trump–Zelensky meeting is being discussed to resolve the most politically sensitive questions.
- Five unresolved issues remain central: territorial arrangements, binding security guarantees and force posture, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and the use of frozen Russian assets for reconstruction.
- EU capitals have coordinated a 24-point counterproposal that fed into the revisions, while the Kremlin dismissed the European plan as not constructive and signaled past openness to the earlier U.S. version.