US-Russia plan pressures Ukraine to concede
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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A look at a 28-point framework to end the war in Ukraine, secretly drafted by the US and Russia in Miami last month without Ukrainian officials at the table. Also, representatives of more than a dozen Caribbean nations are in the UK this week to promote reparations for slavery and the mistreatment of Indigenous people in former colonies. And, the US plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, a move that has the Kingdom’s neighbors in the region worried. Plus, paintings breaking records at Sotheby's art auctions.
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump White House sat down with Russia and outlined a peace plan for Ukraine. |
| 0:10.0 | Ukrainians are not happy. |
| 0:12.0 | This current framework would give Russia, if not military, control, but certainly political |
| 0:17.2 | control over Ukraine's future. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:20.7 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:22.1 | And I'm Marco Wormon today. |
| 0:24.5 | What's at stake for Ukraine in this proposed plan? |
| 0:29.4 | Also, the transatlantic slave trade and its continuing impact on people in the Caribbean. What we have found is that the legacies of slavery are there today in a very deadly manner. |
| 0:36.6 | Plus, cloud seating in Indonesia, so the rain falls before it reaches cities vulnerable to flooding. |
| 0:43.2 | And a Uyghur activist from China trying to rebuild websites taken down by the government. |
| 0:48.0 | Is it possible that Chinese authorities are monitoring what I've been doing? |
| 0:52.1 | Sure. |
| 0:53.1 | That's all ahead today, here on the world. |
| 0:58.4 | This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for coming along. |
| 1:04.1 | We begin today with a look at a new proposal to end the war in Ukraine. U.S. and Russian officials |
| 1:09.2 | have been secretly drafting the plan. |
| 1:11.6 | Kareil Dmitriev, an advisor to Russian president, Vladimir Putin, says he and U.S. envoy, Steve Whitkoff, wrote the 28-point framework during a face-to-face meeting last month in Miami. |
| 1:22.2 | Ukrainians were not at the table. |
| 1:24.0 | The plan calls for major concessions from Ukraine, including handing over territory |
| 1:29.3 | that it currently controls to Russia and drastically reducing the size of its armed forces. |
| 1:35.0 | Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky told visiting U.S. military officials in Kiev today |
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