Ukraine and its European partners will soon present the US with ‘refined documents’ on a peace plan to end the war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, after days of high-level diplomacy.
Kiev is under pressure from the White House to secure a quick peace but is resisting a U.S.-backed plan proposed last month that many see as favorable to Moscow.
Ukrainian authorities are also seeking strong security guarantees from partners in the event of a deal to prevent Russia from attacking again in the future.
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In a statement, Zelenskiy said the new components of the deal discussed with the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Germany in London on Monday were ready for U.S. review.
“The Ukrainian and European components are now more developed, and we are ready to present them to our partners in the US,” he wrote in X. “Together with the North American side, we hope to quickly make the potential steps as feasible as possible.”
‘Closer to a peace agreement’
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said on Tuesday that the allies had worked on three separate documents, including a 20-point framework, a set of security guarantees and a reconstruction plan.
‘I think we are closer to a peace agreement than at any time since the start of the war,’ he said at an event in Helsinki.
Stubb spoke as US President Donald Trump pressed Zelenskiy to secure a deal that could involve painful concessions, citing Russia’s ‘edge’ as it advances on the battlefield.
Among other demands, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Ukraine must hand over all of eastern Donbas before Russia stops fighting, something Zelenskiy has consistently rejected.
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‘They are much bigger. They are much stronger in that sense,’ Trump said in an interview with Politico.
He added that Zelenskiy ‘would have to move on and start… accepting things’.
