Trump says Zelenskyy 'hasn't read U.S. peace proposal' as tensions mount

Tensions are mounting erstwhile again betwixt U.S. President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy aft the White House person accused Ukraine's caput of authorities of not adjacent speechmaking the U.S.' bid proposals yet.

"I'm a small spot disappointed that President Zelenskyy hasn't yet work the proposal, that was arsenic of a fewer hours ago," Trump told reporters connected Sunday night. "His radical emotion it, but helium hasn't [read it]," Trump added.

"Russia, I guess, would alternatively person the full state erstwhile you deliberation of it, but Russia is, I believe, good with it, but I'm not definite that Zelenskyy is good with it," Trump said.

It's uncertain which mentation of the U.S.-backed bid program for Ukraine Trump was referring to but the president's comments came a time aft talks betwixt U.S. and Ukrainian officials ended successful Miami without an evident statement implicit the latest mentation of a draught bid plan.

There person been respective versions of the purported bid program arsenic Russia and Ukraine person haggled — via their American intermediaries — implicit cardinal details wrong the deal, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to demands for territorial concessions by Russia and information guarantees for Ukraine.

Trump's outgoing Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg remarked Sunday that a woody to extremity the warfare was "really close" and that it depended connected resolving 2 main outstanding issues: the aboriginal of Ukraine's Donbas eastbound region, which is broadly occupied by Russian forces, and the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness works successful confederate Ukraine.

Ukraine has fixed a much cautious appraisal of the talks' advancement with Zelenskyy saying successful his nightly code Sunday that the Miami talks — held betwixt his caller main negotiator Rustem Umerov and Ukraine's military chief of general staff, General Andriy Hnatov, and Trump's peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner — were "constructive, though not easy."

Zelenskyy said helium would person a elaborate debrief with his negotiating squad successful idiosyncratic alternatively than implicit the phone, noting, somewhat pointedly, that "some matters tin lone beryllium discussed successful person."

Zelenskyy is travelling to London for talks connected Monday arsenic Kyiv and its European allies scramble to guarantee that Ukraine's territorial integrity and aboriginal information (as good arsenic Europe's) are not compromised successful the look of increasing U.S. unit to hold to bid proposals initially seen arsenic heavy favorable to Russia.

Zelenskyy is owed to conscionable U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for talks "which volition absorption connected the ongoing bid negotiations and adjacent steps," Downing Street said Sunday. Zelenskyy volition besides question to Brussels and Rome for further talks this week.

Ukraine's European allies are anxious to beryllium seen and heard arsenic bid proposals are discussed without their involvement, peculiarly fixed the information ramifications immoderate woody volition person for the wider continent.

The U.K. and France person been starring proponents of a "Coalition of the Willing," a radical of countries that could beryllium portion of a "reassurance force" successful a post-war Ukraine that helps to warrant its security.

Russia vehemently opposes the thought of overseas troops being deployed successful Ukraine however, with Russian President Vladimir Putin saying they would beryllium "legitimate targets."

European leaders volition beryllium feeling much tense astir the U.S.' imaginable for accommodating Russian demands aft the merchandise of Trump's latest nationalist information strategy past Friday, which said Europe risked "civilisational erasure" and that it was "far from obvious" whether European countries tin "remain reliable allies." The papers besides stated that Washington should reestablish strategical stableness with Russia.

The Kremlin connected Sunday praised the caller strategy, saying it mostly accorded with Russia's "vision."

While some the U.S. and Russia stock a communal tendency for a aboriginal rapprochement, immoderate region remains erstwhile it comes to an contiguous bid statement implicit Ukraine.

Talks betwixt Witkoff, Kushner and Russian officials held successful Moscow past week also concluded without a breakthrough, with Russian statesmanlike adjutant Yuri Ushakov telling reporters that the discussions were "very useful, constructive, and highly informative" but that determination was much enactment to beryllium done.