Ukraine/Russia Update Day 1,367…Zelensky …”Lets talk’….The Trump Surrender ‘Deal’ Details …

This IS gonna be a LONG Post….

The main point IS that Trump is putting forward HIS plan….

Which is NOT a REAL ‘Deal’ for Ukraine…

The plan IS favoriable to Russia….

Leaving it with captured land and limiting the Ukraine Militarty on paper….

NOT to Ukraine or Europe , which IS look over its shoulder’s at Putin sniffing for more ….

The parties ARE STILL bombing each other….

Russia IS well aware that peace will bring a stronger Ukraine with stronger ties to the West and NATO even if any agreement rules out formal ties…

The American President is NOT Ukraine’s friend …..

The US Senate had no idea this was coming ….

And YES….

The Ukraine President IS under HUGE Pressure to end the war,,,,

The Russian President Putin is ALSO under pressure to come out with something he can call a victory even though after 4 years he has only taken about 20% of the Ukraine and actually UNITED Europe and ADDED TWO new members to NATO….

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• A Russian attack on the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia late on Thursday killed five people and injured three, the regional governor said. Ivan Fedorov posted pictures online showing buildings engulfed by flames and streets strewn with rubble. Fedorov had earlier issued a warning of an impending attack by Russian guided bombs.

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he will negotiate with Donald Trump on a US-backed peace plan that called on Ukraine to make painful concessions in order to end the Russian invasion, report Luke Harding and Andrew Roth. The Ukrainian president’s office on Thursday confirmed he had received the draft peace plan, which was prepared by US and Russian officials, and that he would speak to Trump in the coming days about “existing diplomatic opportunities and the main points that are necessary for peace”. “Ukraine needs peace and Ukraine will do everything so that no one in the world can say we are upending diplomacy. This is important,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address. His cautious response followed angry denouncements of the plan by some Ukrainian officials who called it “absurd” and unacceptable.

• Key points of the draft US-Russian proposal, according to a copy seen by news agencies, include that:
  – Ukraine give up the Luhansk and Donetsk provinces – making up the Donbas region – as well as Crimea, which will all be “recognised as de facto Russian, including by the United States”.
  – Ukraine will not join Nato, now or in future. The military alliance will agree not to station troops in Ukraine.
  – Ukraine’s armed forces will be limited to 600,000 personnel.
  – Ukraine will receive “reliable security guarantees” and be eligible for EU membership.
  – Russia will be invited to rejoin the G8 and be “reintegrated into the global economy”, with a view to the lifting of sanctions. It will be expected not to invade any neighbouring countries.

• Europeans must be involved in any attempt to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia, the continent’s top diplomats said after reports emerged of the US-Russia plan favourable to Kremlin interests. Jennifer Rankin reports that the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, welcomed any “meaningful efforts” to end the war but said Ukrainian and European input was needed for any plan to work. “[Vladimir] Putin could end this war immediately if he just stopped bombing civilians and killing the people,” she said. “But we haven’t seen any concessions on the Russian side. We welcome all the meaningful efforts to end this war, but like we have said before, it has to be just and lasting. That also means that the Ukrainians, but also the Europeans, agree to this.”

• The chief of Russia’s general staff told Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Russian forces had taken control of the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, but Ukraine’s military denied the city had changed hands. Ukraine also dismissed Russian statements that its forces had taken over large parts of Pokrovsk – a key logistics hub it has been pressing to capturefor months – and Vovchansk, near the Russian border. Putin had visited the command post of the Russian forces’ “west” grouping, where he met with chief of staff Valery Gerasimov and top military brass, the Kremlin said earlier. Gerasimov told Putin in a video posted on the Kremlin site that the heaviest fighting along the 1,200km frontline was near Pokrovsk, with Ukrainian forces offering “stiff resistance”.

• A billion-dollar money laundering network that operated across Britain bought a controlling stake in a Kyrgyzstani bank to facilitate sanctions evasion and support Russia’s war in Ukraine, Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said. In an update to an international investigation into Russian money laundering networks, dubbed “Operation Destabilise”, the NCA said on Friday it was highlighting the scale of networks it was disrupting that convert cash from street crime into cryptocurrency and tie the local drugs trade to organised and state-sponsored crime. The NCA and its enforcement partners in countries such as the US, France, Spain and Ireland had arrested 128 in the global crackdown, it said….

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ISW....Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 20, 2025

1. All available reporting continues to indicate that the stipulations of the reported 28-point Russia-US peace plan amount to Ukraine’s full capitulation to Russia’s original war demands.
2. There are no provisions in the reported peace plan in which Russia makes any concessions, and ISW continues to assess that accepting Russian demands would set conditions for renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine.
3. Russian officials continue to react to the reported 28-point peace plan by reiterating their commitment to Russia’s original war aims and blaming Ukraine for Russia’s own unwillingness to compromise.
4. The Kremlin continues to use a combination of economic incentives and nuclear saber-rattling to extract concessions from the United States to normalize US-Russian relations without making reciprocal concessions to end the war.
5. Russian forces operating in the Hulyaipole direction continue to employ their new offensive template that relies on a combination of a prolonged battlefield air interdiction (BAI) campaign, tactical interdiction efforts, infiltration missions, and mass small group assaults to advance.
6. Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area. Russian forces recently advanced near Hulyaipole

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Zelensky meeting with US Army Sec….

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll on Thursday that he’s willing to work with the Trump administration on its new plan for peace in Ukraine, U.S. and Ukrainian officials tell Axios.

Why it matters: The plan calls on Ukraine to make enormous concessions, including handing over territory to Russia that Ukraine currently controls. But rather than reject it outright, Zelensky agreed to negotiate — and his office said he expects to discuss it with President Trump in the coming days.

Driving the news: Driscoll presented Zelensky with a written copy of the plan, according to a Ukrainian official.

• A U.S. official said Zelensky and Driscoll “agreed on an aggressive timeline for signature.”
• Zelensky’s office said in a statement that the Ukrainian president “outlined the fundamental principles that matter to our people, and following today’s meeting, the parties agreed to work on the plan’s provisions in a way that would bring about a just end to the war.”
• Zelensky later tweeted that Ukraine was “ready for constructive, honest and swift work” on Trump’s plan to end the war.
• Driscoll’s delegation originally planned to travel to Ukraine to discuss military technology and strategy before the White House asked him to help “kickstart negotiations” with Zelensky on behalf of U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a second U.S. official said…..

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Friction point: The Europeans weren’t consulted during the initial drafting of the plan, and the Ukrainians were brought in only after extensive talks between U.S. and Russian envoys.

• The plan includes elements that are seen as highly Moscow-friendly, such as limitations on the size and capabilities of the Ukrainian military after the war, according to a Ukrainian official.
• Ukraine has repeatedly rejected such proposals in the past.

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Between the lines: The U.S. push comes with Zelensky under more intense domestic political pressure than at any time since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

• A spiraling corruption scandal has ensnared some of Zelensky’s close associates, and the opposition is calling on him to clean house or even form a new unity government.
• Zelensky is expected to convene his party’s members of parliament this evening, hours after sitting down with Driscoll.
• A U.S. official told Axios the domestic scandal could make Zelensky more willing to make difficult concessions for peace. Some analysts think the opposite — that the uncertainty surrounding his political future means he can’t afford to be seen as selling out to Moscow….

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Axios lists the Full Trump Ukraine/Russiaan ‘plan’…….

The Full Plan

1. Ukraine’s sovereignty will be confirmed.

2. A comprehensive non-aggression agreement will be concluded between Russia, Ukraine and Europe. All ambiguities of the last 30 years will be considered settled.

3. It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries and NATO will not expand further.

4. A dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States, to resolve all security issues and create conditions for de-escalation in order to ensure global security and increase opportunities for cooperation and future economic development.

5. Ukraine will receive reliable security guarantees.

• A U.S. official told Axios this would be an explicit security guarantee for Ukraine from the U.S., the first time that has officially been on the table during these talks, though the proposal does not offer further details on what it entails.

6. The size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be limited to 600,000 personnel.

• Note: Ukraine’s army currently includes 800,000-850,000 personnel, and included around 250,000 prior to the war, according to a Ukrainian official.

7. Ukraine agrees to enshrine in its constitution that it will not join NATO, and NATO agrees to include in its statutes a provision that Ukraine will not be admitted in the future.

8. NATO agrees not to station troops in Ukraine.

• Note: NATO countries including France and the U.K. have been working on separate proposals that would include small numbers of European troops on Ukrainian soil after the war. This plan appears to disregard that possibility.

9. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland.

10. The U.S. guarantee:

• The U.S. will receive compensation for the guarantee;
• If Ukraine invades Russia, it will lose the guarantee;
• If Russia invades Ukraine, in addition to a decisive coordinated military response, all global sanctions will be reinstated, recognition of the new territory and all other benefits of this deal will be revoked;
• If Ukraine launches a missile at Moscow or St. Petersburg without cause, the security guarantee will be deemed invalid.

11. Ukraine is eligible for EU membership and will receive short-term preferential access to the European market while this issue is being considered.

12. A powerful global package of measures to rebuild Ukraine, including but not limited to:

• The creation of a Ukraine Development Fund to invest in fast-growing industries, including technology, data centers, and artificial intelligence.
• The United States will cooperate with Ukraine to jointly rebuild, develop, modernize, and operate Ukraine’s gas infrastructure, including pipelines and storage facilities…..

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