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Rubio–Umerov Florida Summit Revises Trump 28-Point Ukraine Peace Plan
On 30 Nov 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ukraine’s Rustem Umerov held a four-hour closed-door session in Hallandale Beach that pared back and re-negotiated the contentious U.S.-drafted peace blueprint, ahead of envoy Steve Witkoff’s scheduled Moscow talks.
Focusing Facts
- The meeting lasted about four hours at the Shell Bay Club in Hallandale Beach, Florida, on 30 Nov 2025.
- President Trump confirmed the original 28-point proposal has already been cut to 22 points after Ukrainian and European push-back.
- Special envoy Steve Witkoff is slated to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow before 4 Dec 2025, prior to Putin’s India trip.
Context
Big-power ‘deal diplomacy’ has precedent: the 1995 Dayton Accords, hammered out in an Ohio airbase, ended the Bosnian war after U.S. envoys forced warring parties into an American-drafted framework. Today’s Florida summit echoes that model—an external broker writing the outline first, then coaxing combatants to sign. The evolving draft also tracks a century-long trend of Washington using economic carrots and security guarantees to freeze conflicts it cannot win outright, from the Marshall Plan in 1947 to the 2020 Abraham Accords. Whether a real estate-style, top-down bargain can lock in borders and neutrality for Ukraine will shape European security architecture for decades: if it sticks, it could normalise a de-facto partition and U.S.–Russia co-management of Eastern Europe; if it fails, it joins Versailles 1919 and Minsk 2015 as cautionary tales of imposed settlements sowing future wars. On a 100-year timeline, the meeting matters less for the words drafted than for testing whether mid-21st-century great powers can still impose order without multilateral legitimacy—a question that will echo well beyond Ukraine.
Perspectives
Russian state-owned media
TASS — Casts the Florida session as productive and wide-ranging, stressing that Washington now has “a pretty good understanding” of Moscow’s stance and will keep Russia closely involved in shaping any settlement. By foregrounding U.S. receptiveness to Russian views and noting Kyiv’s unease with the plan, the coverage bolsters the Kremlin narrative that its leverage is acknowledged while glossing over potential Ukrainian objections or concessions.
Ukrainian pro-European outlet
Euromaidan Press — Emphasises Rubio’s vow to help Ukraine become “safe forever” and Kyiv’s insistence on protecting state interests, framing the talks as U.S.–Ukrainian teamwork aimed at lasting security and prosperity. Focuses on optimistic assurances and Ukrainian agency while largely sidestepping the controversial U.S. draft terms, likely to keep domestic and diaspora readers confident of steadfast Western backing.
UK tabloid media
Daily Mail Online — Frames the negotiations as Trump’s team driving a 28-point deal widely lambasted as too pro-Russia, spotlighting leaked calls, Republican criticism and behind-the-scenes manoeuvring. Relies on dramatic political intrigue and critical rhetoric to engage readers, which can magnify controversy and underplay diplomatic substance in favour of sensational narrative arcs.