President Donald Trump on Saturday said that his administration\u2019s peace proposal<\/a> for Ukraine and Russia is \u201cnot my final offer,\u201d telling reporters after a question from NBC News, \u201cOne way or the other, we have to get it ended.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump added that if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy doesn\u2019t agree to the peace plan, \u201cthen he can continue to fight his little heart out.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Trump said that he wants Zelenskyy \u2014 who has hesitations about the proposal \u2014 to accept the peace plan by Thanksgiving<\/a>.<\/p>\n Key points of the proposal include allowing Russia to keep more Ukrainian territory than it currently holds, forcing Ukraine to limit the size of its army and agreeing that Ukraine will never join NATO.<\/p>\n Ukrainian lawmakers have criticized the plan as conceding too much to Russia\u2019s demands, though the Trump administration has said that the plan, which has 28 points, was drafted with input from both sides of the conflict.<\/p>\n \u201cUkraine may now face a very difficult choice, either losing its dignity or the risk of losing a key partner, either the difficult 28 points, or a very difficult winter,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a video about the plan earlier this week.<\/p>\n Several U.S. lawmakers, including in Trump\u2019s own party, have also expressed concerns about the plan.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile there are many good ideas in the proposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan, there are several areas that are very problematic and can be made better. The goal of any peace deal is to end the war honorably and justly \u2014 and not create new conflict,\u201d Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., wrote in a post <\/a>on X Saturday morning. Later, the South Carolina senator posted that he was confident Trump would garner a peace deal by pushing both countries and would ensure Ukraine remains free and able to defend itself from future aggression.<\/p>\n Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., wrote in his own X post<\/a> on Friday that \u201cthis so-called \u2018peace plan\u2019 has real problems, and I am highly skeptical it will achieve peace.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cUkraine should not be forced to give up its lands to one of the world\u2019s most flagrant war criminals in Vladimir Putin. The size and disposition of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces is a sovereign choice for its government and people. And any assurances provided to Putin should not reward his malign behavior or undermine the security of the United States or allies.\u201d<\/p>\n The proposal includes a security guarantee with a commitment that U.S. and European allies to Ukraine would treat any future attack on Ukraine as an attack on the broader trans-Atlantic community, a U.S. official told NBC News, with few additional details about what the commitment would entail.<\/p>\n Ukrainian leaders aren\u2019t the only ones voicing concerns about the plan. On the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa, European leaders have said the proposal, if agreed to, could \u201cleave Ukraine vulnerable to future attack<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n That was a key point in a statement signed by the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and Norway.<\/p>\n Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Geneva on Sunday to meet with a Ukrainian delegation to move peace talks forward with an eye to ending the war in Ukraine, according to two U.S. officials.<\/p>\n A separate meeting with a Russian delegation in another location in coming days is under consideration, according to those officials.<\/p>\n Rubio and Witkoff will join Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who arrived earlier Saturday along with the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, Ambassador Julie Davis. Driscoll this past week traveled to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n \u201cSecretary Driscoll and team just landed in Geneva to work on the next steps toward achieving peace in Ukraine,\u201d a U.S. official said.<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_focal-760x428,f_auto,q_auto:best\/mpx\/2704722219\/2025_11\/1763771333660_nn_ksi_trump_ukraine_peace_deadline_251121_1920x1080-y48vt7.jpg\")
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