The decision facing Zelensky

泽连斯基面临的决定

The Global Story

2025-11-24

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American, Ukrainian and European negotiators met in Switzerland on Sunday to discuss a US-proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was faced with a dilemma last week – either make concessions to Putin, or risk losing US support. But Zelensky said there were "signals that President Trump's team hears us", and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a "tremendous amount of progress" had been achieved. We’re joined by the Oscar-winning Ukrainian film-maker Mstyslav Chernov, and by BBC Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse, to discuss how Ukrainians feel about the leaked peace plan. Producers: Cat Farnsworth and Lucy Pawle Executive producer: James Shield Mix: Travis Evans Senior news editor: China Collins Photo: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky sits inside a vehicle. Credit: Susana Vera/Reuters.
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  • The United States has a new 28-point peace plan for Ukraine,

  • and it's so favorable to Moscow that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was even forced to deny that the peace plan was written by Russians.

  • Even Republican senators had their doubts.

  • It was our request, one of our members made contact and said,

  • hey, can you tell us the rest of the story here?

  • This doesn't look like normally something that would come out of our government,

  • particularly the way that it was written.

  • It looked more like it was written in Russian to begin with.

  • If Ukraine signed this deal,

  • it would get a promise of protection from the United States against another Russian invasion.

  • But it would also be forced to hand over parts of the country to Russia that Moscow doesn't even control right now.

  • We're recording on Sunday evening at the start of a week which could decide the future of Ukraine.

  • Donald Trump says he wants a deal by Thursday.

  • That's Thanksgiving.

  • and that the options for his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, are narrowing fast.

  • He'll have to like it.

  • And if he doesn't like it, then they should just keep fighting, I guess.

  • The suggestion that he made, though, was that if he doesn't accept it,

  • that the US would pull back its support for Ukraine.

  • At some point, he's going to have to accept something.