Volodymyr Zelensky wants to meet with Donald Trump in the coming days. This was announced this Friday by the president of Ukraine on his social networks. Zelensky wants to meet with the American leader on a date to be determined close to the first day of 2026. The objective of the meeting, which would be so far this year, is to try to reach a consensus on the final peace proposal that must be made to Russia.
“We are not losing a single day. We have agreed to a meeting at the highest level with President Trump soon. Much can be decided for the new year,” Zelensky wrote. On the table is Trump’s peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. This document, which consists of 20 points, is being discussed by the American team with the Ukrainian and Russian sides. Diplomatic efforts are leading them. The main meeting place for the negotiating teams is Miami.
The announcement of the next possible meeting between Zelensky and Trump came after the two presidents spoke by phone this Thursday. Kushner and Witkoff also took part in the conversation. “We are really working 24/7 to bring the end of this brutal Russian war against Ukraine closer and to make all documents and steps realistic, effective and safe,” Zelensky said after the telephone interview.
Ukraine and the United States have agreed on 18 of the 20 points of the peace plan. There are only two in which there is disagreement. in Donetsk province. Washington requests that this portion of territory still under Ukrainian rule be a demilitarized zone. kyiv replies that the Russians must demilitarize for their part a territory equivalent to occupied Donetsk. The White House is not clear about this proposal because they consider it prevents the agreement.
The other point on which there is a lack of consensus between Ukraine and the United States, as Zelensky detailed on Tuesday, is the future of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. , is managed by the United States and with the possible participation of the two enemies. Half of the energy would go to the occupier and the other half to Ukraine. Zelensky demands that only his state company Energoatom and the Americans control it.
The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported this Friday that Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, explained in a recent meeting with businessmen that his emissaries are negotiating precisely the opposite, that the Zaporizhia plant is only managed by the Russians and the United States.
Possible Russian withdrawal
Russia has sent unflattering signals about the possibility of accepting the peace plan proposed by Ukraine and the United States. Moscow considers that all of Donbas should be under its control and without the Ukrainian military presence. Donbas is the region formed by the provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk. The latter is already almost completely taken over by Russia. The Kremlin has indicated that it is willing to freeze the war front in the provinces of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. And that it could withdraw from the small parts it has occupied in the provinces of Kharkiv, Sumi and Dnipropetrovsk. .
Zelensky warned this Tuesday that any agreement with Russia. The Ukrainian president added that another essential condition for assuming a pact with Russia is that Western allies guarantee protection and security measures equivalent to those of a country belonging to NATO.
