US refuses to give security guarantees to Ukraine until peace deal is signed – Politico
27 November 2025 10:12
The United States is ready to discuss long-term security guarantees for Ukraine, but only after a peace agreement is concluded. This is the position of Washington’s European allies, State Department Secretary Marco Rubio told Politico, informed sources told "Komersant Ukrainian".
According to them, the head of US diplomacy assured that US President Donald Trump would later hold talks on security guarantees for Kyiv. One of the interlocutors added that the Secretary of State also mentioned several other issues that need to be addressed after the peace is concluded. Europeans believed that these were the territorial integrity of Ukraine and frozen Russian assets.
The US peace plan
In mid-November, the United States presented Ukraine with a draft peace plan. One of its 28 points provided for Kyiv to receive reliable security guarantees. After talks between Washington and Kyiv in Geneva, the document was reduced to 22 points, Trump said. At the same time, the US administration claimed that the parties had disagreements on only a few points.
According to a senior Ukrainian source at CNN, Kyiv rejected three key points of the peace plan. In particular, Ukraine is still not ready to hand over the unoccupied part of Donbas to Russia, limit the size of the army to 600,000 troops, and refuse to join NATO.
Previously, the U.S. side had set November 27 as the deadline for Kyiv to accept the terms of the peace plan. The US President said that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy must accept the offer or continue to “fight with all the little strength we have.” After the talks in Geneva, the Ukrainian side offered to organize a visit by Zelenskyy to the United States to discuss the most sensitive aspects of the peace plan with Trump. However, the White House chief said that he expects to meet with Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin only when “the agreement to end this war is final or in its final stages.” He instructed his special envoy Steve Witkoff to fly to Russia for talks with Putin, and US Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll to contact Kyiv.
