President Donald Trump launched a furious broadside against Ukraine’s leadership on Sunday morning via Truth Social, declaring in all capitals that Kyiv had “EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS” to end the nearly four-year war, just as American and Ukrainian delegations were locked in delicate final negotiations over a controversial peace framework in Geneva.

Within hours, President Volodymyr Zelensky published a carefully worded message on X expressing profound gratitude to the United States, to every American citizen, and personally to President Trump for the critical military support, beginning with Javelin anti-tank systems, that he said “has been saving Ukrainian lives” since the earliest days of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Behind closed doors in Geneva, senior Ukrainian and U.S. officials were intensively revising a 28-point draft plan that had initially alarmed Kyiv by incorporating several of Moscow’s most inflexible demands: recognition of territorial losses, drastic reduction of Ukraine’s armed forces, and a legally binding commitment never to join NATO, though Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov later announced that the evolving document now incorporates the majority of Kyiv’s essential red lines.

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Trump has set an uncompromising public deadline of November 27—American Thanksgiving—for Ukraine to formally accept the proposal, while sources close to the talks indicate private assurances of limited flexibility; the draft also includes vaguely worded Western security guarantees and provisions to channel hundreds of billions in frozen Russian assets toward Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction.

The rapid-fire exchange of public rebuke and conciliatory gratitude highlights the precarious and unpredictable nature of Trump’s Ukraine policy in his second term, which has veered sharply between branding Zelensky a dictator and Vladimir Putin a genius, imposing fresh sanctions on Moscow, threatening to cut off all aid to Kyiv, and occasionally floating the possibility that Ukraine could eventually reclaim occupied territories.

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