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Today in Focus

The frantic push to bring peace to Ukraine

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

There have been deals and counter deals. But how close has the flurry of diplomacy brought a ceasefire? Pjotr Sauer reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:09.0

Today, the peace deal that could finally break the Russia-Ukraine stalemate.

0:34.4

According to a report by the U.S. media outlet, Axios, the United States has been secretly working with Russia on a new draft plan to end the war in Ukraine.

0:39.9

First, there was a 28-point plan, pushed by Donald Trump last Wednesday, as a solution to end almost four years of a war that has devastated Ukraine and killed or injured hundreds

0:45.2

of thousands of soldiers and civilians.

0:47.8

By the weekend, there had been a redraft, a slimmed-down 19-point proposal, this time with European leaders involved.

0:55.9

The United Kingdom, France and Germany have put forward a counter-proposal to US President

1:01.6

to Donald Trump's peace plan for Ukraine with...

1:05.7

The most contentious bits in this peace plan, such as the territory and the NATO membership,

1:11.5

has not been directly addressed in the new version. By Tuesday, at a summit in Abu Dhabi, U.S. Russian and Ukrainian

1:18.3

officials were hammering out peace plan mark three. All lies on Abu Dhabi, where Trump's unlikely

1:24.3

negotiator, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, is holding talks with the Russians.

1:30.1

The Guardian's Russian affairs reporter, Piotta Sauer, has been following the twists and turns.

1:35.4

The pace has been staggering. We've seen Ukrainian and American officials meet in Geneva.

1:40.1

We've seen Europeans gather and come together with their own peace plan.

1:44.0

And now we're seeing Russian and Ukrainian and American officials flying to Abu Dhabi.

1:48.4

All in the space in a week, there's rumors that Zelensky will fly to Washington to meet Trump himself.

1:53.1

And I think it's likely that U.S. officials will also fly to Moscow to meet Putin and the Kremlin.

1:59.2

One U.S. spokesperson claimed that Ukraine had already accepted Tuesday's deal, likely as a strategy

2:04.5

to break the diplomatic deadlock.

2:06.9

In any case, it feels like hope is on the horizon.

2:15.4

Obviously, we won't miss Trump's deadline of Thanksgiving on Thursday for a full peace deal,

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