KYIV: US President Donald Trump’s particular envoy will meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and different European leaders in Berlin this weekend, the White Home mentioned, as Washington presses for a plan to finish Russia’s struggle with Ukraine.
Trump has been stepping up stress on Kyiv to succeed in an settlement since revealing a peace plan final month that has been accused of echoing Moscow’s key calls for, together with Ukraine ceding essential territory.
The 28-point proposal has triggered a flurry of diplomacy between the US and Ukraine’s European allies, with Kyiv officers lately saying they’d despatched Washington an up to date plan.
A White Home official confirmed to AFP on Friday (Dec 12) the accuracy of a Wall Road Journal report that Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff will meet with Zelenskyy and European leaders over the weekend to debate the standing of peace negotiations.
Germany’s authorities has mentioned Berlin will host the leaders, together with the heads of the European Union and NATO, subsequent Monday within the hours after Zelenskyy attends a German-Ukrainian enterprise discussion board with Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The concept of a speedy accession by Ukraine into the European Union – a transfer opposed by Moscow – is included within the newest model of a US-led plan to finish the struggle.
Europeans and Ukrainians are additionally asking the US to supply them with “safety ensures” earlier than Ukraine negotiates any territorial concessions, the French presidency mentioned on Friday.
Concrete safety ensures for Ukraine are a “prerequisite” for any peace settlement and have to be set out in a legally binding doc, Ukraine’s ambassador to NATO, Alyona Getmanchuk, informed AFP on Thursday.
