Western leaders say Ukraine plan needs work, Trump signals scope for changes


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  • Saturday, 22 Nov 2025

Rescuers work at the site of the apartment building hit by a morning Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Ternopil, Ukraine, in this handout picture released November 19, 2025. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS

JOHANNESBURG/KYIV (Reuters) -Western leaders said on Saturday that a peace plan proposed by the United States can be a basis for talks to end Russia's war in Ukraine but needs "additional work", part of Western efforts to eke out a better deal for Kyiv before a Thursday deadline.

Meeting on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit in South Africa, European and other Western leaders scrambled to come up with a coordinated response to U.S. President Donald Trump's demand for Ukraine to accept his 28-point plan by Thursday.

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