WASHINGTON — President Trump dashed Kyiv’s hopes of a peace summit this week to end the nearly four-year war with Russia – in an instant.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief advisor, Andriy Yermak, was in the middle of an interview with Post on Tuesday when Trump posted on Truth Social that he was sending Army Sec. Dan Driscoll to meet Ukrainians and sending Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow to continue talks for peace deal – effectively slowing down his previous goal of ending the killing by Thanksgiving.

Yermak had just spent the past half-hour telling The Post that he hoped the 19-point proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war hammered out on Sunday would be adopted as a joint US-Ukraine plan, ideally with Trump and Zelensky signing the deal at Mar-a-Lago

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