The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump have made contradictory statements about the status of negotiations on a plan to end the Ukraine war. Zelensky said that the draft 20-point plan negotiated between the United States and Ukraine was 90 percent completed. Trump warned Zelensky in an interview with Politico on the other hand, that he has “nothing at all” as long as “I don’t approve it”. “So we’ll see what he has,” the US President continued.
The Ukrainian President had told the news portal Axios previously said the US had offered a 15-year security guarantee agreement that could be extended. However, Ukraine would like a longer term. If Trump If one cannot be dissuaded from moving away from the proposal for a complete withdrawal of the Ukrainian armed forces from Donbass, a referendum on the 20-point plan is conceivable, said Zelensky. To do this, however, Russia would have to agree to a 60-day ceasefire so that Ukraine could prepare and hold a vote.
Trump receives Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago
Zelensky and Trump meet this Sunday in Florida. The US President receives Zelenskyj at his private Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Trump said he thought the meeting would go well. The Reuters news agency reports that a telephone conference will take place this Saturday, in which several European heads of state and government will take part, alongside Trump and Zelensky.
The Russian government accuses the Ukraine However, they plan to “torpedo” the peace process. The new draft is “radically different” from the text that Russia negotiated with the USA, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
Russia carries out air strikes on Ukraine
Russia launched air strikes on Ukraine again during the night, including on the capital Kyiv. According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, at least five people were injured and civilian infrastructure was damaged. Poland, which borders Ukraine, temporarily closed Rzeszów and Lublin airports because of the attacks and deployed fighter jets.
The USA had in November a 28-point plan to end Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine presented. The text, which was criticized as being very Russia-friendly, was revised in the following weeks at the insistence of Ukraine and its European allies. The revised version looks among other things, security guarantees for Ukraine and a larger number of troops than in the original version.
