With Talks Ongoing, Trump Adds New Tension With Claim Ukraine Has 'zero Gratitude'

President Donald Trump inserted caller tensions into nan high-stakes Ukraine-Russia bid talks connected Sunday, publically accusing Kyiv’s leaders of showing “zero gratitude” for U.S. support conscionable arsenic U.S. officials successful Geneva were moving to show a agreed front.

Trump’s Truth Social comments landed astatine a delicate moment: his management is pressing Ukraine to judge a 28-point bid connection by Thanksgiving, moreover arsenic disorder complete nan plan’s authorship and concerns from European friends and U.S. lawmakers person raised questions astir whose interests it serves.

Senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and typical envoy Steve Witkoff, met pinch Ukrainian officials successful Geneva, Switzerland, this play to move bid talks guardant pinch a extremity of ending nan war.

Ukraine's Andriy Yermak, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio clasp a property convention astatine nan U.S. Mission successful Geneva, Switzerland, connected Sunday.Fabrice Coffrini / AFP - Getty Images file

On Sunday, aft a afloat time of talks, Rubio told reporters "a tremendous magnitude of progress,” had been made.

He added "there’s still immoderate activity to beryllium done, but we are overmuch further up coming astatine this clip than we were erstwhile we began this greeting and wherever we were a week agone for certain.”

“So it is successful my individual position that we’ve had astir apt nan astir productive and meaningful gathering truthful acold successful this full process since we’ve been progressive successful from nan beginning,” he said. “We person a very bully activity merchandise that was already built connected a instauration of input from each nan comparative parties progressive here, and we were capable to spell done immoderate of those items now, constituent by point. And I deliberation we’ve made bully progress.”

Another U.S. charismatic told NBC News that Rubio, Witkoff and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll met pinch a Ukrainian delegation astatine nan U.S. Mission successful Geneva. The U.S. officials said nan discussions were “positive and constructive.”

In a post later Sunday connected Telegram, Zelenskyy thanked nan U.S. and European allies.

“Ukraine is grateful to nan United States, to each American heart, and personally to President Trump for nan thief that, starting pinch nan Javelins, is redeeming nan lives of Ukrainians. We convey everyone successful Europe, successful nan Group of Seven and nan Group of Twenty, who is helping america protect lives,” he wrote.

Ukrainian and European leaders person expressed concerns astir nan bid proposal, pinch immoderate European leaders and U.S. lawmakers adjacent to Trump person besides expressed concerned that it benefits Russia.

“While location are galore bully ideas successful nan projected Russia-Ukraine bid plan, location are respective areas that are very problematic and tin beryllium made better. The extremity of immoderate bid woody is to extremity nan warfare honorably and justly — and not create caller conflict,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., wrote successful a station on X Saturday.

Another apical Trump state successful nan Senate, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., besides expressed concerns connected Friday. "This alleged ‘peace plan’ has existent problems, and I americium highly skeptical it will execute peace,” he wrote successful a post connected X.

On Saturday, Trump told reporters that this peculiar connection is “not my last offer.” He added that if Zelenskyy didn’t judge nan bid proposal, “then he tin proceed to conflict his small bosom out.”

In a video aft nan connection was made public, Zelenskyy said, “Currently, nan unit connected Ukraine is 1 of nan hardest.”

He added, “Ukraine whitethorn now look a very difficult choice, either losing its dignity aliases nan consequence of losing a cardinal partner, either nan difficult 28 points, aliases a very difficult winter.”

Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s ambassador to nan United States, told Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing” that nan 28 points are a starting constituent for negotiations.

“This is only nan first proposal, unattainable, and indeed, it’s a wish list. It’s not a archive aliases an agreement. It’s conscionable a database of nan points it’s been discussed correct now, and it is an agreed statement pinch Ukraine and nan United States that it will beryllium a constructive reconciling process,” she said.

On Saturday night, respective U.S. lawmakers questioned whether nan bid connection was drafted by nan U.S. aliases Russia.

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., connected Saturday said “none of nan accusation that was released connected this peculiar connection came backmost from nan administration,” pursuing his telephone Saturday day pinch Rubio.

“We asked, ‘Is this, you know? Where does this travel from?’ And he said, ‘This was a merchandise that had been presented to Mr. Witkoff, and that it was not our proposal, and that it was an opportunity, though, for nan U.S. arsenic an intermediary to bring it to nan attraction of nan Ukrainians and I believe, nan Europeans arsenic well,’” Rounds added.

In a station connected X precocious Saturday night, Rubio said that nan scheme was endorsed by U.S. officials.

“The bid connection was authored by nan U.S. It is offered arsenic a beardown model for ongoing negotiations,” he wrote. “It is based connected input from nan Russian side. But it is besides based connected erstwhile and ongoing input from Ukraine.”