Between a fix and a frustration… Putin offers Kyiv a “final opportunity.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the US proposal on Ukraine could be a “basis for a final settlement” of the ongoing conflict, but warned that Russia would seek to control more territory if Kyiv rejected the proposal. During a government meeting broadcast on Russian channels, he pointed out that the American plan “could form the basis for a final peaceful settlement, but this plan is not being discussed with us concretely.”

In contrast, US President Donald Trump believes that Thursday, November 27, which coincides with Thanksgiving, is a “suitable” deadline for Kyiv to agree to the US plan to end the war. He stated in an interview with Fox News: “I had a lot of deadlines, and when things went well, we tended to extend them, but I think Thursday is a suitable deadline.”

In addition, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, António Costa, announced that the leaders of the European Union will meet tomorrow, Saturday, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg to discuss the situation in Ukraine, stressing after a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that “no step related to Ukraine should be taken without Kyiv’s approval.”

According to informed sources who spoke to “Reuters”, Ukraine is facing increasing American pressure to agree to the agreement, accompanied by threats to stop supplying it with intelligence and weapons. The sources indicated that Washington is asking Kyiv to sign the framework of the agreement before next Thursday, and that the American plan, consisting of 28 clauses, includes significant concessions from the Ukrainian side, after Kyiv had previously refused to give up any part of its territory.

The American draft stipulates that Ukraine give up the Lugansk and Donetsk regions in the Donbas region, recognize the Crimean Peninsula as de facto Russian territory, in addition to freezing the lines of contact in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, which Moscow announced it had annexed. The plan also includes Kyiv giving up seeking to join NATO, not allowing the deployment of international forces on its territory, and holding elections within 100 days.

In light of an internal corruption scandal that ousted two ministers in Ukraine, a clause that stipulated reviewing foreign aid was removed, and replaced with a call for a “general amnesty,” according to a senior US official to Agence France-Presse, a point that Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov indirectly denied its validity.