Zelenskyy says Trump’s Ukraine plan must ensure ‘real and dignified peace’

Ukrainian president says moving connected US program to extremity warfare with Russia arsenic European allies rise concerns astir concessions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says helium is moving connected a connection from the United States to extremity the Russia-Ukraine war, arsenic Kyiv faces increasing unit from Washington and sustained attacks by Russian forces connected the battlefield astir 4 years into the conflict.

Zelenskyy said connected Friday that helium discussed US President Donald Trump’s plan successful a telephone with French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

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“We are moving connected the papers prepared by the American side. This indispensable beryllium a program that ensures a existent and dignified peace,” the Ukrainian person wrote connected X.

“We are coordinating intimately to marque definite that the principled stances are taken into account. We coordinated the adjacent steps and agreed that our teams volition enactment unneurotic astatine the corresponding levels.”

Zelenskyy’s comments travel arsenic media reports bespeak that Trump’s 28-point proposal to extremity the warfare endorses respective of Russia’s apical demands, and its warfare narrative, including that Ukraine cede further territory, curb the size of its subject and beryllium barred from joining NATO.

At the aforesaid time, the West would assistance sanctions connected Russia, and Moscow would beryllium invited backmost into the Group of Eight (G8), which it was expelled from for seizing and annexing Crimea successful 2014, the AFP quality bureau said.

I held a associated telephone with President of France @EmmanuelMacron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom @Keir_Starmer, and @bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz. I americium grateful for their principled enactment for Ukraine and for each our people.

We discussed the program for bid for Ukraine and all… pic.twitter.com/Lz6Tq38QUR

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 21, 2025

Citing 2 unnamed radical acquainted with the matter, Reuters reported connected Friday that the Trump medication has threatened to chopped quality sharing and weapons supplies for Kyiv to unit it into accepting the plan.

The sources told the quality bureau that Ukraine “was nether greater unit from Washington than during immoderate erstwhile bid discussions” arsenic the US wants the state to motion “a model of the deal” by adjacent Thursday.

For their part, Ukraine’s European allies, which were not consulted connected the US proposal, person stressed the request to safeguard “vital European and Ukrainian interests”, Germany said aft the talks with Zelenskyy.

Merz, Macron and Starmer welcomed the “US efforts” to extremity the war, which began successful February 2022 erstwhile Russia launched a full-scale penetration of its neighbour.

But they assured the Ukrainian person of their “unwavering and afloat enactment for Ukraine connected the way to a lasting and conscionable peace”.

The European Union’s overseas argumentation chief, Kaja Kallas, besides said the EU and Ukraine privation bid but volition not springiness successful to Russian aggression. “This is simply a precise unsafe infinitesimal for all,” Kallas told reporters.

“We each privation this warfare to end, but however it ends matters. Russia has nary ineligible close whatsoever to immoderate concessions from the state it invaded, yet the presumption of immoderate statement are for Ukraine to decide.”

Fighting rages

As Ukraine faces mounting unit from the Trump medication to hold to the deal, Ukrainian forces are besides facing superior challenges connected the battlefield and deadly bombings by Moscow.

Rescuers person pulled much bodies from the rubble aft a Russian rocket onslaught connected the western metropolis of Ternopil earlier this week, bringing the decease toll to astatine slightest 31, according to Ukrainian officials.

Ninety-four others, including 18 children, were wounded successful the strike, which deed a residential flat bloc.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin said astir 5,000 Ukrainian troops were trapped connected the eastbound slope of the River Oskil, successful Ukraine’s eastbound Kharkiv region. There was nary contiguous remark from the Ukrainian military.

The study comes arsenic Ukrainian forces person been trying to fend disconnected a Russian attempt to prehend the eastbound cities of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, wherever warring has raged.

A Russian onslaught connected the metropolis of Zaporizhia successful confederate Ukraine precocious connected Thursday killed 5 radical and wounded 3 others, exigency services said. Russia has been gaining crushed successful the Zaporizhia region that houses the southeastern Ukrainian metropolis that straddles some banks of the Dnipro River.

On Friday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the country’s battlefield advances should person Zelenskyy that “it is amended to negociate and bash it present alternatively than later”.

“The abstraction for the state of decision-making is shrinking for him arsenic territories are lost,” Peskov told reporters.