Trump says it's "appropriate" to give Ukraine until Thanksgiving to agree to a peace deal, as Zelensky says he will propose "alternatives".

US President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to accept his plan – widely seen as favoring Russia – to end the war, as President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country faced “one of the most difficult moments” in its history.

Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed he is agonising over "one of the most difficult moments" in Ukraine's history as it faces a deadline from Donald Trump to agree to a peace plan.

Corruption probes have on occasion targeted Zelensky’s administration, and he has often clashed with the agency behind the latest one, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). But no investigation has posed a greater threat to the president’s standing among the people of Ukraine,

The U.S. is sending “signals” that everything could be off the table if Kyiv does not quickly sign a proposal, which was drawn up by special envoy Steve Witkoff.

An anti-Zelensky political coalition is coalescing as the president’s allies are accused of enriching themselves while the country’s soldiers die on the battlefield.

It's not yet clear how President-elect Donald Trump hopes to broker peace in Ukraine in just 24 hours once back in the White House.