US President Donald Trump has described his recent talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the EU delegation, and Russian President Vladimir Putin as positive, in a bid to settle the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The Trump administration last month proposed a 28-page framework for a peace plan aimed at ending the war. The proposal has faced some resistance from the Ukrainian side, along with its EU backers, since it contained clauses like Ukraine ceding territory, giving up the aspiration of joining NATO and reducing its military size in return for security guarantees.
When asked how much Ukraine would cede to settle the war, Trump said, “Ukraine has already lost the territory and, in fact, more than what Russia demands.”
“Well, they’ve already lost the territory, you know, to be honest. I mean, the territory is lost,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “But in terms of security guarantee… We’re working on the security guarantees so the war doesn’t start up again.”
“At this moment, Russia wants to get it ended. And the problem is, they’ll want to get it ended, and then all of a sudden they won’t. And Ukraine will want to get it ended, and all of a sudden, they won’t. So we have to get them on the same page,” he said. Zelenskyy noted some progress in the Monday talks but said, “The issue of concessions is definitely not relevant.”
Meanwhile, European leaders have also outlined their own peace plan for Ukraine, which includes the deployment of the European-led multinational military force with US-led ceasefire “monitoring” teams.
After the talks, Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, joined by leaders of Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, along with top officials from Brussels, proposed robust security guarantees for Ukraine.
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