US secretary of state Marco Rubio downplayed the US peace plan as 'a list of potential ideas'. Photograph: Fabrice COFFRINI/AFP via Getty ImagesLast week, US president Donald Trump set a hard deadline for Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to agree to the details of a 28-point draft peace deal with Russia. If he refused, Trump said, the Ukrainian leader would be left “to fight his little heart out”. The 28-point plan, which was widely criticised as a series of one-sided concessions to Russian president Vladimir Putin, had been shrunk to closer to 20 points. “It is not our peace plan.”Rounds said Rubio had “made it clear that it was an opportunity to have received” the plan.

Source: The Irish Times November 25, 2025 21:45 UTC