Trump Promised to End the War in UKR. Now He Must Decide How; 140 C-Clashes in F-Line: 50 in Kurakhove Dir, 23 in Pokrovsk Dir, 12 in Kupiansk Dir, 17 in Lyman Dir; What We Know About Trump’s Plans for Ending RU’s War Against UKR; UKR Decimates 75% of RU Assault Near Strategic Siversk Hub; Zelensky Believes Trump Wants Quick Fix to RU War Against UKR,LIVE UPDATES, DETAILS, and LOTS MORE

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Trump Promised to End the War in Ukraine. Now He Must Decide How:

Foreign-policy advisers close to the president-elect put forth different versions of a plan to effectively freeze the front line

Donald Trump’s promise to end the war in Ukraine by Inauguration Day now puts him in a position of having to choose between competing proposals from advisers united by a common thread—a sharp break from President Biden’s “as long as it takes” approach to arming Kyiv.

Throughout his campaign for the White House, Trump bashed Biden’s handling of Ukraine, warning that it made World War III more likely and that Kyiv fleeced the U.S. by obtaining weapons worth billions of dollars free of charge. He has said he could resolve the conflict quickly, bringing both sides to the negotiating table, but hasn’t revealed how he would do so.

“I can’t give you those plans because if I give you those plans, I’m not going to be able to use them,” he said during the campaign.

In fact, Trump hasn’t approved a specific peace plan, allies said, including how he would persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to sit at the same table and negotiate. While advisers have offered ideas, only the president-elect, in consultation with key aides, will decide how to handle the sensitive and high-stakes diplomacy, they said.

“Anyone—no matter how senior in Trump’s circle—who claims to have a different view or more detailed window into his plans on Ukraine simply doesn’t know what he or she is talking about or doesn’t understand that he makes his own calls on national-security issues, many times in the moment, particularly on an issue as central as this,” a former Trump National Security Council aide said.

Like in Trump’s first term, different factions are set to compete to influence the Republican’s foreign policy. More traditionally minded allies such as Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state now in contention to lead the Pentagon, are likely to push for a settlement that doesn’t appear to give a major win to Moscow. Other advisers, particularly Richard Grenell, a top candidate to lead the State Department or serve as national-security adviser, could give priority to Trump’s desire to end the war as soon as possible, even if it means forcing Kyiv into significant concessions.

The proposals all break from Biden’s approach of letting Kyiv dictate when peace talks should begin. Instead, they uniformly recommend freezing the war in place—cementing Russia’s seizure of roughly 20% of Ukraine—and forcing Ukraine to temporarily suspend its quest to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

One idea proposed inside Trump’s transition office, detailed by three people close to the president-elect and not previously reported, would involve Kyiv promising not to join NATO for at least 20 years. In exchange, the U.S. would continue to pump Ukraine full of weapons to deter a future Russian attack. —>READ MORE HERE (or HERE

At the front – 140 clashes, the Armed Forces neutralized more than 350 invaders in the Pokrovsky direction:

During Thursday, November 7, there were 140 combat clashes between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and the Russian invaders at the front, half a hundred of them in the Kurakhiv direction.

As reported by Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced this on Facebook , publishing information as of 10:00 p.m. Thursday, November 7.

“At the moment, 140 combat clashes have taken place. Today, the terrorist state carried out 55 airstrikes, dropping 87 anti-aircraft missiles. In addition, the invaders used 687 kamikaze drones for strikes and carried out more than 3,600 attacks on the positions of our troops and populated areas,” – it is said in the message.

On the Kharkiv direction, Russian terrorists stormed the positions of our units in the Vovchansk district three times.

Twelve times the enemy attacked our positions in the Kupyan direction . In the vicinity of Petropavlivka, Kruglyakivka, Kindrashyvka, Kolisnykyvka, and Lozova, units of the Defense Forces repelled all enemy attacks.

On the Lymanskyi direction, Russian troops attacked Ukrainian defenders 17 times today in the areas of Druzhelyubivka, Grekivka, Makiivka, Katerynivka, Terniv, Torsky, Serebryanka, Bilogorivka, and Hryhorivka.

In the Siversky direction, our defenders repulsed one attack in the Pereizny area. The enemy launched an airstrike in the Zakitny area.

In the Kramatorsk direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled six attempts by the invaders to advance in the areas of Stupochky and Bila Hora. Another attack is underway.

In the direction of Toretsk, our troops repelled four enemy attacks in the area of Toretsk, where he, with the support of aviation, tried to improve his tactical position. There are still two battles going on.

In the Pokrovsky direction during this day, the aggressor attacked our positions 23 times, in the areas of Myrolyubivka, Promenya, Lysivka, Krutoy Yar, Hryhorivka, Sukhoi Yar and Selidovoy, our defenders repelled all the assaults of the occupation troops.

According to available information, the losses of the occupiers in the direction for today are 357 people killed and wounded, a mortar, five armored combat vehicles, a tank , seven units of automobile equipment were destroyed, a cannon, a tank, two cars and two armored combat vehicles were also damaged. —>READ MORE HERE

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