Europe just refused to let Trump carve it up with Russia

Ukraine just said no to Donald Trump's peace plan.

Well, not all of it. But enough of it.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's President, went on CNN about 14 hours ago. Jake Tapper asked him about the security deal Donald Trump is building with Russia. And Zelenskyy didn't hold back.

He compared it to Yalta. That's the 1945 conference where the Allies carved up Europe into blocs after the Second World War. He says this new deal risks doing the same thing again, eighty years later, with Ukraine divided up by Russia.

That's Ukraine's president, in public, saying he does not trust where Donald Trump's negotiation is going.

And here's how he found out about it. Not from Donald Trump directly. He learned it during a phone call with Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and a US special envoy, and Steve Witkoff, another US special envoy. That call was supposed to be about preparing for talks with Russia. The framework just came up inside it.

So Ukraine wasn't in the room when this idea got built.

Donald Trump had described the plan the day before, at the White House, right after meeting Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian presidential envoy. Melania Trump, the First Lady, had arranged that meeting to mark a ceasefire in the occupied Ukrainian village of Oleshky.

Donald Trump said it would involve more than Ukraine. He even said it might cover all of Europe.

He called it a big, beautiful agreement. Said everyone would be thrilled.

But here's the thing. Nobody else seems to know what's actually in it. CNN says several European officials who know this conflict well told the network they had no idea what Donald Trump meant.

Even Zelenskyy says he doesn't know all the details. He says ending the war has to be settled before anyone talks about security guarantees. And he says this framework could actually be more dangerous for the European Union than for Ukraine. Why? Because Ukraine isn't in the EU or in NATO. So a deal that reshapes European security could bind EU members to something Ukraine never even signed.

And Zelenskyy isn't just warning. He's ruling things out.

He says quote "We are not ready to leave Donbas, to give our territory." He says he's still willing to meet Vladimir Putin in America, in Europe, or somewhere else neutral. Just not in Moscow.

And he's not the only one saying this.

The same day, in Warsaw, three of Europe's top foreign ministers said almost the same thing, almost word for word.

Kaja Kallas runs foreign policy for the EU. She says Putin does not have a veto over European security. She says Europe already has a security structure — NATO and the EU — and Ukraine needs to be built into that, not handed some separate deal from outside. She says any agreement Europe isn't party to is one Europe won't carry out either.

That's the EU's top diplomat saying a deal cut without Europe just won't count in Europe.

Andrii Sybiha is Ukraine's Foreign Minister. He said nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. Nothing about Europe without Europe. And he warned there will be no second Yalta. No second Munich either — that's the 1938 deal that let Nazi Germany take part of Czechoslovakia with nobody from Czechoslovakia at the table.

Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland's Foreign Minister, said a deal made over Europe's head is impossible.

And Kallas backed it all up with numbers. Russia lost 54,000 soldiers killed and wounded last month alone, she says. Russian air strikes have killed at least 45 civilians in the past week. And the EU just sent Ukraine another €4.36 billion this week, under its assistance loan.

So that's the EU saying: we're still paying for this war, and Russia is still losing men in it. We're not bystanders here.

And the war hasn't stopped while all this diplomacy happens. A Russian strike on Kharkiv killed a schoolteacher and her one-year-old daughter in the past few days. Zelenskyy called it very painful.

The White House hasn't responded. Not to Zelenskyy. Not to Kallas, Sybiha or Sikorski either.

So what happens now? US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine are set for 10 and 11 November in Abu Dhabi. That's about four days away.

Zelenskyy says he expects incoming Democratic lawmakers in Washington to take a harder line against Russian aggression and against giving up territory.

And here's what nobody has said yet. What's actually in Donald Trump's framework. Whether it covers NATO members. What guarantees Ukraine would get. Or how far the talks with Russia have already gone.