Trump says Ukraine has expressed 'zero gratitude' for U.S. help amid peace plan talks

President Donald Trump inserted fresh tensions into the high-stakes Ukraine-Russia peace talks on Sunday, publicly accusing Kyiv’s leaders of showing “zero gratitude” for U.S. support.

President Donald Trump inserted fresh tensions into the high-stakes Ukraine-Russia peace talks on Sunday, publicly accusing Kyiv’s leaders of showing “zero gratitude” for U.S. support just as U.S. officials in Geneva were working to show a united front.

Trump’s Truth Social comments landed at a delicate moment: His administration is pressing Ukraine to accept a 28-point peace proposal by Thanksgiving, even as confusion over the plan’s authorship and concerns from European allies and U.S. lawmakers have raised questions about whose interests it serves.

Senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff, met with Ukrainian officials in Geneva this weekend to move peace talks forward with a goal of ending the war.

Ukraine's Andriy Yermak, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a news conference at the U.S. Mission in Geneva on Sunday.Fabrice Coffrini / AFP - Getty Images fileOn Sunday, after a full day of talks, Rubio told reporters "a tremendous amount of progress” had been made.

He added, "there’s still some work to be done, but we are much further ahead today at this time than we were when we began this morning and where we were a week ago for certain.”