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US President Trump's envoy to have Ukraine peace plan talks at Kremlin · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: President Trump says US negotiators and making progress in their
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  Speaker 1: efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Trump confirmed territorial concessions by KIV were still on the
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  Speaker 1: agenda and said the big concession from Moscow would be
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  Speaker 1: to stop fighting and North America correspondent David Willis reports President.
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  Speaker 2: Trumps j U Day on the negotiate diagree.
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  Speaker 3: Busday in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 4: No answer on that from the President, as he and
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  Speaker 4: the First Lady headed to Florida for the Thanksgiving holiday. Earlier, however,
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  Speaker 4: he touted tremendous progress in talks to end the bloodshed
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  Speaker 4: in Ukraine before announcing he was sending his top diplomat
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  Speaker 4: and son in law to Moscow in the hope of
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  Speaker 4: a peace agreement.
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  Speaker 2: They're dogging to Russia. Now. Steve Woodcom is going over,
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  Speaker 2: maybe with Jared. I'm not sure about Jared going, but
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  Speaker 2: he's involved in the Process's smart guy, and they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be meeting with President Wootin, I believe next week
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  Speaker 2: in Moscow.
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  Speaker 4: But the role of Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff is coming
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  Speaker 4: under fresh scrutiny. Bloomberg has published details of a telephone
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  Speaker 4: conversation in which mister Whitcoff appears to be coaching the
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  Speaker 4: Russians on how to get on Donald Trump's good side,
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  Speaker 4: using flattery and praising his recent ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
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  Speaker 4: Since then, however, a twenty eight point American peace plan
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  Speaker 4: that was seen as highly favorable to Russia has been amended,
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  Speaker 4: a move welcomed by Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky. In his
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  Speaker 4: nightly address, mister Zelenski said Ukraine's security was in the
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  Speaker 4: interest of both America and Ukraine, adding that Russia respected
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  Speaker 4: American power more than that of any other country. But
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  Speaker 4: whilst he's seeking a White House meeting to discuss territorial concessions,
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  Speaker 4: President Trump would for now at least rather leave those
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  Speaker 4: sort of details to his negotiators. In a social media post,
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  Speaker 4: he wrote, I look forward to hopefully meeting with President
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  Speaker 4: Zelenski and President Putin soon, but only when the deal
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  Speaker 4: to end this war is final or in its final stages.
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  Speaker 4: For many of those caught up in this conflict, those
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  Speaker 4: final stages cannot come soon enough. Last night, a mass
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  Speaker 4: drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaparisha left a
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  Speaker 4: dozen people injured and buildings and vehicles badly damaged. After
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  Speaker 4: nearly four years of war, the stakes in these delicate
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  Speaker 4: negotiations could hardly be higher. David Willis, BBC News Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: Our Ukraine reporter after abdur Razlov is life for us
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  Speaker 1: in Kiev and up to Jalila. What do we know
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  Speaker 1: about where things stand right now with the negotiations over
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  Speaker 1: this peace proposal?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Kiev is still hoping to organize a meeting between
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  Speaker 3: President Zelenski and Donald Trump in the US. The goal
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  Speaker 3: of that meeting will be to discuss the most sensitive
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  Speaker 3: and contentious issues of the peace plan. However, now it
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  Speaker 3: appears that this discussion will happen in Ukraine when the
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  Speaker 3: US Secretary of Army then risk All visits later this
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  Speaker 3: week and the President Trump suggests that there will be
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  Speaker 3: some territorial concessions from both sides. And this remains one
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  Speaker 3: of those key issues that hasn't been resolved in the document,
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  Speaker 3: and so far the position of Kiev and Moscow have
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  Speaker 3: been irreconcilable. And Russia wants the occupied territories to be
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  Speaker 3: recognized as a part of their land, but also they
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  Speaker 3: want the entire Donets and Lugansk regions to be given
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  Speaker 3: to them. Remember, the part of Donets region is still
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  Speaker 3: controlled by the Ukrainian army, and that means that if
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  Speaker 3: that deal comes through, it means the Ukrainian forces will
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  Speaker 3: have to pull out from those areas. But also Russia
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  Speaker 3: wants this recognition of those stories territories, and Ukraine insists
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  Speaker 3: that this will be the red line for them that
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  Speaker 3: they will not cross, that they will not accept any
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  Speaker 3: legal recognition of the occupied territories.
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  Speaker 1: Russia keeps saying it has not yet received this revised
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  Speaker 1: document and so far we've had no indication, have we
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  Speaker 1: that Russia wants to end the fighting?
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  Speaker 3: That is correct, yes. Just yesterday, the spokesperson of President
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  Speaker 3: put In, Mitley Pasco, said that they hadn't received any
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  Speaker 3: new draft of this piece deal. But the Foreign Minister
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  Speaker 3: Sergi Lavorov Foreign Minutes of Russia. He suggested that the
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  Speaker 3: revised document may not reflect Russia's positions and therefore they
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  Speaker 3: may not be acceptable for Moscow. Remember, Moscow wants the
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  Speaker 3: agreements that they proposed in Alaska. When Putin met with
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump. During that meeting, Vladimir Putin suggested that the
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  Speaker 3: frozen the current frontline will be frozen along the southern
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  Speaker 3: regions of Zapparisia and Herzon, but the entire Donuts region
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  Speaker 3: and Lugan's region will be given to Russia. And this
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  Speaker 3: is something that Ukrainian military are completely against. They're saying
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  Speaker 3: that they cannot simply pull out their troops and give
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  Speaker 3: away the land that they still control to Russia without
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  Speaker 3: any fight.
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  Speaker 1: Abdurazlova in Kiev, thank you.