Was Trump's latest 'peace plan' written by the Kremlin?
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The leak of a 28 point peace plan over the weekend - reportedly agreed between Washington and Moscow - sent shivers down the spine of European leaders and Ukraine's soldiers.
The proposals would force Ukraine to hand over swathes of territory to Vladimir Putin, limit the size of its army, and rule out any future membership of NATO.
The package was seen as so favourable to the Kremlin that many questioned whether Volodymyr Zelenskyy would be able to stay on if he accepted the terms. And computer analysis of the text suggested that the plan may have indeed been written in Russian before being translated into English.
Donald Trump then floated a Thanksgiving deadline for a deal. So what's behind America's fresh urgency for an end to the conflict in Ukraine? Is Russia determining the terms of any deal? And does anyone in the White House care?
Later - Mamdani's masterclass in how to handle an Oval Office summit, and why Donald Trump may have seen something of himself in the New York mayor-elect.
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| 0:12.8 | Even from the last time I spoke to you and I apologize for keeping you waiting, |
| 0:16.0 | but there was more work to be done. |
| 0:17.7 | Now, obviously, like any final agreement, they'll have to be agreed upon by the |
| 0:21.2 | presidents and there are a couple issues that we need to continue to work on. But I think |
| 0:26.6 | the report today is that I think today was worthwhile. It was very, very, it is probably |
| 0:32.0 | the most productive day we have had on this issue, maybe in the entirety of our engagement, but certainly in a very long time. |
| 0:38.9 | That is the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, talking in Geneva after frantic negotiations |
| 0:46.9 | on the Ukraine-Russia war. He says that the 28-point Trump peace plan that came out over the weekend is bringing the conflict closer to its end than it has ever been. |
| 1:00.7 | But many people see it as a ridiculously one-sided document in favour of Russia. |
| 1:07.1 | And a leading Republican senator has come out and said, why is America rewarding the aggressor |
| 1:14.3 | and punishing the victim? Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis. |
| 1:26.3 | And there is a bit of a drama going on about this 28-point peace plan |
| 1:30.7 | because some of what was released was in English and rather clunky English at that. |
| 1:38.1 | And that led to various people to put it into kind of chat GPT and grok and whatever else. |
| 1:43.8 | And what they both came up with was, well, |
| 1:46.6 | this was a document that was written in Russian and translated into English, giving vent to the |
| 1:53.3 | idea that somehow this is a Russian peace plan that the Americans are passing off as their own. Now, I've spoken to various people |
| 2:02.2 | who say it's much more complicated than that. But frankly, if this was a Russian foreign ministry |
| 2:06.8 | document, there wouldn't be flaws in the English. It would be absolutely perfect. They speak |
| 2:10.4 | better English than us. Exactly. They're not clunky or clumsy in that way. But there is |
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