Steve Witkoff: The White House special envoy at the inauguration of Donald Trump (left) as US president. US president Donald Trump gave Volodymyr Zelenskiy an ultimatum: sign off on the “peace plan” by Thanksgiving Day, November 27th, or lose all US support. Indications that the White House had adopted a Russian plan as its own shocked Ukrainians, Europeans and much of Trump’s Republican Party. In conversation with Ushakov, Witkoff accepted Russia’s demand for all of Donetsk. He should be fired.”In a normal country, Trump and Witkoff would be tried for treason.