US row intensifies as Trump team demands Ukraine agree deal 'before security guarantees' & Ukrainian counterattack recaptures key positions in Pokrovsk
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Day 1,372.
Today, as Thanksgiving is marked in the United States – and supposedly the day by which Ukraine was meant to agree to a peace deal, a deadline Donald Trump has now walked back – Russia denies leaking the phone call in which Steve Witkoff coached Vladimir Putin’s top aides on how to flatter the former president. We assess whether Marco Rubio’s apparent demand – that a peace deal be signed before the US grants Ukraine any security guarantees – is remotely deliverable. We also report on how Moldovan authorities attempted to return a Russian drone that violated their airspace. And later, we hear from the Ukrainian public, and gauge their reaction to this week’s extraordinary developments.
Contributors
Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.
With thanks to Svitlana Morenets, columnist at the Spectator.
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Who leaked Witkoff’s Kremlin call? These are the main suspects (The Telegraph):
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev (The Insider):
https://theins.press/en/politics/287159
Allies worry US demands Ukraine deal before security guarantees (POLITICO):
Moldova's Foreign Ministry confronts Russian ambassador with drone that violated country's airspace (Kyiv Independent):
A better way to craft a reparations loan (Hugo Dixon of the Ukraine Reparations Loan):
https://www.ukrainereparationsloan.com/post/a-better-way-to-craft-a-reparations-loan
Zarah Sultana’s pompous, luxury beliefs about Ukraine (The Spectator):
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/zarah-sultanas-pompous-luxury-beliefs-about-ukraine/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Domnichols, and this is Ukraine the latest. |
| 0:13.1 | Today, on a day that marks Thanksgiving in the United States, |
| 0:16.4 | and apparently the day Ukraine was given to agree to a peace deal, |
| 0:20.3 | although Donald Trump has walked |
| 0:21.6 | that deadline back. Russia has denied leaking the phone call in which Steve Wickoff coached |
| 0:26.4 | Vladimir Putin's top aides on how to flatter Donald Trump. We examined whether Marco Rubio's |
| 0:31.5 | apparent call for a peace deal to be signed before the US agrees to any security guarantees for |
| 0:36.5 | Ukraine is at all deliverable, |
| 0:38.8 | and we report how Moldovan authorities have tried to give the Russian ambassador his drone back, |
| 0:44.2 | after it had violated Moldovan airspace and landed on a roof during Moscow's latest mass aerial attack on Ukraine. |
| 0:51.2 | And later, we hear the views of the Ukrainian public and their reaction to this week's extraordinary events. |
| 0:58.0 | Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships |
| 1:03.7 | to finally reward you with victory. |
| 1:07.3 | The Russia does not want to face. |
| 1:08.9 | First, we're fighting with our help for the Ukraine |
| 1:12.6 | also our freedom and our European |
| 1:16.6 | WERALD. |
| 1:17.6 | If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. |
| 1:21.6 | We are with you, not just today or tomorrow, but for a hundred years. |
| 1:26.6 | We can not as a European, |
| 1:28.8 | let us gain the Russia in Ukraine. |
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