Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to discuss territorial issues, the main stumbling block in talks to end the war, with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, as a 20-point peace framework and a security guarantee deal near completion.
Announcing the meeting, Zelenskiy said “a lot can be decided before the New Year,” adding that a security guarantee agreement between Ukraine and the U.S. is “almost ready” and the 20-point plan draft was 90% complete.
“He doesn’t have anything until I approve it,” Trump told Politico in an interview published on Friday. “So we’ll see what he’s got.”
Zelenskiy told Axios that the U.S. offered a 15-year deal on security guarantees that could be renewed, and Kyiv wanted a longer term.
He said his meeting with Trump aimed to “refine things” in the drafts and to discuss potential deals on Ukraine’s economy.
“As for the sensitive issues: We will discuss both Donbas and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. We will certainly discuss other issues as well,” Zelenskiy said as he unveiled the agenda for the meeting.
The Ukrainian President was cited by Axios as saying that if he is not able to push the U.S. to back Ukraine’s position on the land issue, he is willing to put the 20-point plan to a referendum – as long as Russia agrees to a 60-day ceasefire to allow Ukraine to prepare for and hold the vote.
On Friday, he discussed preparations for the Sunday meeting and progress in talks with some European leaders, including NATO chief Mark Rutte and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Kyiv’s version of the 20-point plan was radically different from what Russia has been discussing with the U.S., according to Interfax-Russia.
He added, however, that: “I think that 25 December 2025 will remain in our memory as a turning point, when we came closer, indeed closer, to a solution.”
Putin’s foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, spoke with members of the Trump administration after Moscow received U.S. proposals about a possible peace deal, the Kremlin said on Friday. It did not disclose how Moscow viewed the documents.
