Today the critical four with him at . The Ukrainian President intends to support the plan he presented for the pacification of his country and to try to extract the agreement of the president of this version of the plan aimed at ending the war with which it will soon be four years old.
Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in the USA presenting his latest proposals on the crucial territorial issue.
the American president said yesterday on the Politico website, in another delusion of power but at the same time setting the framework for the negotiations.
“It will go well with Putin”
On the other hand, faithfully adhering to his “one on the nail and one on the horseshoe” policy, he said: “I think it will go well with him. I think it will go well with Putin,” with whom he expects to meet “soon.”
Volodymyr Zelensky, for his part, expressed the hope yesterday, Saturday, that the meeting will be “very constructive”, and he spoke beforehand with his European partners.
In Canada, Zelensky secured a new financial aid of 2.5 billion Canadian dollars (1.5 billion euros) from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. European partners assured him of their “full support”, according to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
At 13:00 the Trump-Zelensky quadruple
The Trump-Zelensky meeting will take place at 13:00 local time (20:00 Greek time) in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
In Palm Beach, where Donald Trump is spending the Christmas holidays, a
The meeting of the two Presidents in Florida follows, which aims to end the war and was modified after talks with Ukraine.
The Kremlin’s reaction
After a first version that accepted many of the Russian claims, the Kremlin judges that with this latest version, Kiev seeks to “torpedo” the negotiations.
On the eve of the meeting in Florida, Moscow sent hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles to bomb Kiev and the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, killing two people and leaving more than a million households without electricity.
An attack that shows “Russia’s response to our efforts for peace,” Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.
Trump pissed off
Donald Trump no longer hides his irritation at the prolongation of the negotiations. “He’s very disappointed in both camps,” his spokeswoman Caroline Levitt said on December 11.
On December 19, the US president had pressured Ukraine to “move”.
Zelensky’s 20-point plan
The 20-point document proposes freezing positions at the front without responding to Russian demands for Ukrainian forces to withdraw from the roughly 20 percent of the eastern Donetsk region they still control.
The new text no longer includes any legal obligation for Ukraine not to join NATO, another key Kremlin demand.
In addition to the fate of Donbass, the region of eastern Ukraine claimed by Moscow, and the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, held by Russian soldiers, in the south, the two leaders are expected to discuss security guarantees that the West could provide as part of a peace deal.
These “security guarantees must come simultaneously with the end of the war,” Volodymyr Zelensky insisted yesterday.
The US president recently hinted that he believes Ukraine has every interest in freezing the front line as quickly as possible against the Russian advance on the ground that he sees as inevitable. “Russia has the advantage. And he always has,” he said on December 8.
But peace should preserve the “sovereignty” and “territorial integrity” of Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen underlined yesterday, after a telephone conversation with V. Zelensky.
Russia: The EU the main obstacle to Peace
In an interview with the Tass news agency that was broadcast early this morning, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, estimated that “the European Union has become the main obstacle to peace.”
