At talks in Geneva, the United States and Ukraine reworked the initial American plan for ending the war, cutting it from 28 to 19 points. According to The New York Times, The Guardian, Politico, Financial Times and Bloomberg, the revised draft temporarily removes the provisions most sensitive for Kyiv and its allies: renouncing NATO membership, making territorial concessions, and several other demands seen as favorable to Moscow.
According to the NYT, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the most controversial points off the agenda, including limits on Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration and questions related to deterrence forces against a new Russian invasion. The Guardian, Politico and the FT add that the new version no longer requires Ukraine to cede the Donbas to Russia, while some delicate territorial issues have been set aside for separate discussion between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.
Bloomberg’s sources also say the document no longer includes a proposal to allocate $100 billion from frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Oleksandr Bevz, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian presidential office who took part in the Geneva talks, said the sides also removed clauses unrelated directly to Ukraine so that Zelensky would not have to sign provisions that do not concern his country.
At the same time, The New York Times notes that the central question remains unchanged: whether Vladimir Putin would agree to a plan stripped of the demands most important to the Kremlin. According to the paper, officials in the Trump administration expect the Russian leader will likely reject the updated draft quickly, leading to prolonged negotiations. Trump, after criticizing Kyiv for showing “zero gratitude,” still described the Swiss contacts in optimistic terms and wrote on Truth Social:
“Maybe something good is happening.”
Political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya argues that Putin’s main goal in the war is to prevent any Western military presence in Ukraine. In her view, Moscow sees troops, long-range weapons, military bases and related infrastructure as an existential threat. She added that the Kremlin’s other demands, including Ukraine’s non-membership in NATO and cuts to its army, serve the same purpose.
On November 25, 2025, according to US media reports, US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll met with a Russian delegation at closed talks in Abu Dhabi, where the latest version of the agreement is being discussed. Moscow has not officially confirmed this. The same day, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin was still waiting for an “official plan” from the United States and preferred not to engage in “megaphone diplomacy,” while indicating that Moscow still considers Trump’s earlier draft, said to match the “spirit of Anchorage,” to be the basis for negotiations.
Against this backdrop, the fighting continues. On Tuesday morning, the Russian army struck Kyiv: six people were killed and 13 were injured, while emergency power outages were introduced in the city and heating disruptions were reported. A Ukrainian drone attack on Taganrog killed three people and injured 10 others. In Novorossiysk, four people were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds, and one more person was injured in Kabardinka.