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The United States and Ukraine connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) hailed “productive” talks connected Washington’s program to halt Russia’s warfare with its neighbor, but some sides besides cautioned that the high-stakes negotiations were acold from over.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that much enactment was required, and a root successful Kyiv’s delegation characterised the discussions arsenic “not easy.”
The talks successful Florida travel arsenic Kyiv faces mounting subject and governmental pressure, on with the fallout from a home corruption scandal.
Washington has enactment guardant a program to extremity the astir four-year struggle and is seeking to finalize it with Moscow and Kyiv’s approval.
The negotiations, which travel talks successful Geneva, could acceptable the signifier for an upcoming sojourn to Moscow by President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, who is expected to sermon Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We had another very productive session, gathering disconnected Geneva, gathering disconnected the events of this week,” Mr. Rubio told reporters.
“But there’s more work to be done. This is delicate. It’s complicated,” helium added.
“There are a batch of moving parts, and evidently there’s different enactment progressive present that volition person to beryllium a portion of the equation, and that volition proceed aboriginal this week erstwhile Mr. Witkoff travels to Moscow.”
Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner besides attended the gathering successful Hallandale Beach, northbound of Miami.
Ukraine’s information assembly caput Rustem Umerov led Kyiv’s delegation, which besides included Andrii Hnatov, the chief of unit of Ukraine’s equipped forces, and statesmanlike advisor Oleksandr Bevz.
Mr. Umerov described the Florida talks arsenic “productive and successful.”
A root adjacent to the Kyiv delegation, however, told AFP that “the process is not casual due to the fact that the hunt for formulations and solutions continues.”
Another root briefed connected the developments told AFP that “the Americans truly privation the last points to beryllium agreed upon” up of the US talks successful Moscow.
“The wording is complicated, particularly with respect to territories, due to the fact that they spot themselves exclusively arsenic mediators, not arsenic a party” supporting Ukraine, the root added.
The U.S. talks travel amid turbulence for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his government. A blockbuster corruption probe forced him to sack his main of unit and apical negotiator, Andriy Yermak, connected Friday (November 28, 2025).
Mr. Rubio had met with Mr. Yermak lone a week agone successful Geneva.
Flurry of diplomacy
An archetypal 28-point U.S. connection — drafted without input from Ukraine’s European allies — would person required Kyiv to retreat from its eastbound Donetsk region, and the United States past would de facto recognise the Donetsk, Crimea and Lugansk regions arsenic Russian.
The United States pared backmost the archetypal draught pursuing disapproval from Kyiv and Europe, but the existent contents stay unclear.
After the Florida negotiations, French President Emmanuel Macron is acceptable to big Mr. Zelenskyy for talks successful Paris connected Monday (December 1, 2025).
Mr. Rubio is acceptable to skip a gathering of NATO overseas ministers connected Wednesday and Thursday successful Brussels, contempt allies’ concerns astir the US program for Ukraine.
But Mr. Witkoff is expected successful Moscow for talks with Mr. Putin.
The flurry of diplomacy comes arsenic the warfare — which has killed tens of thousands of civilians and subject unit and displaced millions of Ukrainians — shows nary motion of easing.
Russian lipid terminal hit
Ahead of the Florida talks, Russia’s forces targeted Ukraine’s superior and the portion for 2 nights successful a enactment arsenic they precocious connected the beforehand line.
A drone onslaught successful the outskirts of Kyiv killed 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 11 precocious Saturday (November 29, 2025), the determination politician said.
Hours earlier, a Ukrainian information root said Kyiv was liable for attacks connected 2 lipid tankers successful the Black Sea that it believed were covertly transporting sanctioned Russian oil.
One of Russia’s largest lipid terminals halted operations connected Saturday (november 29, 2025) pursuing a drone attack.
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a radical that includes U.S. lipid majors Chevron and ExxonMobil and which owns the terminal, called the onslaught a “terrorist attack.”
Ukraine, which did not remark connected the incident, regularly targets Russian vigor facilities successful a bid to sap the country’s warfare chest.
