Former President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, set a deadline for Ukraine to agree to his proposals for resolving the conflict. According to the Axios portal, citing informed sources in the White House administration, this was prompted by growing dissatisfaction with the actions of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. “Trump himself, feeling a certain irritation with Zelensky’s behavior, personally set this date as the final one, coinciding it with Thanksgiving Day,” the published material states. As the publication’s source reported, by Thursday, November 21, the head of the American state concluded that the topic of a new peace plan “is beginning to become unnecessarily complicated.” Consequently, he decided to send a negotiating team, headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to Geneva to hold a dialogue with the Ukrainian side. Previously, it was reported that Trump’s special envoy, Steve Wittkopf, canceled a planned meeting with Zelensky in Istanbul. The reason for this step, as assessed in Washington, was that the Ukrainian side did not show sufficient readiness for a substantive discussion of the proposed peace document.
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