US President Donald Trump gestures arsenic helium greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arsenic helium arrives for a gathering astatine the White House successful Washington, DC, connected Oct. 17, 2025.
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Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelenskyy said Monday that helium has asked for up to 50 years' worthy of information guarantees for Ukraine during his gathering with U.S. President Donald Trump astatine the weekend.
Commenting connected the talks with Trump successful Florida connected Sunday, Zelenskyy told journalists that helium said a gathering with Russia would lone beryllium imaginable aft the president and European leaders had agreed connected a model bid woody for Ukraine.
The comments, reported by Reuters connected Monday, included Zelenskyy stating that helium had asked for information guarantees for up to 50 years for Ukraine, but that the existent 20-point bid program envisaged guarantees — aimed astatine deterring aboriginal Russian aggression — for 15 years.
Zelenskyy said helium plans to conscionable with European leaders successful the coming days to sermon the proposals.
Any bid program should beryllium enactment to the Ukrainian radical successful a referendum, helium added, noting that immoderate ballot to o.k. oregon cull the statement should beryllium held during a 60-day ceasefire. Zelenskyy said "Russia intelligibly does not privation a ceasefire for now" aft respective days of dense drone and rocket attacks connected Ukraine.
Ukraine's comments travel aft talks with Trump successful Mar-a-Lago connected Sunday. Trump said the discussions had gone good but acknowledged that "one oregon 2 precise thorny issues" remained.
"I bash deliberation we're getting a batch closer, possibly precise close," Trump told reporters aft emerging from the talks.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy described the talks arsenic a "really large discussion" successful which information guarantees were "100% agreed" upon, but Trump gave a somewhat little estimation erstwhile asked astir that portion of the proposal.
When asked by a newsman what issues stay unresolved, Trump said it was astir "the land."
"Some of that onshore has been taken," Trump said. "Some of that onshore is possibly up for grabs, but it whitethorn beryllium taken implicit the adjacent play of a fig of months, and you are amended disconnected making a woody now."
Moscow has demanded that Ukraine cede the eastbound Donbas portion to Russia and has rejected information guarantees for Kyiv truthful far. For its part, Ukraine has repeatedly rejected calls for the Donbas, which is mostly but not afloat occupied by Russian forces, to beryllium handed to Moscow.
It's unclear whether Zelenskyy would conscionable face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin if a bid statement was agreed successful principle, with some leaders vehemently refusing to conscionable successful the past.
— CNBC's Hugh Son contributed reporting to this story.
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