Trump Gives Ukraine Thanksgiving Deadline: Sign Peace Deal or Lose All U.S. Support

The Trump administration has dropped a 28-point ultimatum on Volodymyr Zelensky’s desk: sign this peace framework by Thanksgiving or watch every last drop of American support vanish.

Sources inside the talks say the message is blunt — everything, from intelligence sharing to weapons routed through Europe, goes "off the table" if Ukraine drags its feet.

The document landed Thursday when U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll handed Zelensky the plan drafted by Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

Leaked copies show Moscow’s wishlist in black and white: Ukraine slashes its armed forces from roughly 850,000 troops to 600,000, constitutionally bans itself from ever joining NATO, cedes de facto control of Crimea and the occupied parts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, and pulls all troops out of the heavily fortified Donetsk region Russia has failed to conquer in four years of war.

In exchange, Kyiv gets vague "reliable security guarantees" with no specifics and a promise that sanctions on Russia will lift in stages.

Two officials familiar with the closed-door talks described the U.S. approach as classic good-cop, bad-cop.

One said the teams have been divided "to play good cop and bad cop — one presses, the other tries to say: let’s work together to change [the plan]."

U.S. Embassy chargé d’affaires Julie Davis called the timeline "aggressive" after Thursday’s meeting.

President Trump drove the point home Friday on Fox News Radio’s "The Brian Kilmeade Show."

“They’re losing land. They’re losing land,” Trump said. “We’re in it for one thing. We want the killing to — you know, they lost 25,000 people last month between the two countries, 25,000 people. It’s out of control. It’s a bloodbath."

"If they don’t do something, they will lose in a short period of time," the president warned, adding that Thanksgiving would be an "appropriate" deadline but noting he has extended deadlines before when talks move forward.

Zelensky responded in a recorded address the same day.

"Ukraine may now face a very difficult choice, either losing its dignity or the risk of losing a key partner," he said. "Currently, the pressure on Ukraine is one of the hardest."

He vowed to "work calmly with America and all partners."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday that Moscow has received no official proposal and claimed "virtually no progress" on bilateral irritants.

Yet he insisted Russian forces’ advances "should convince Zelensky and his regime that it is better to negotiate and do so now, better to do so now than later."

One person familiar with the plan called it "clearly a pro-Russian deal that was written by Dmitriev and Witkoff," predicting months — perhaps a year — of haggling even if Zelensky wanted to sign, which sources say he cannot politically survive.

A Thanksgiving deadline looms over Kyiv, with American leverage fully deployed and Russian troops still grinding forward. Whether Ukraine bends or the deal breaks remains the question hanging over a war now in its fourth brutal year