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Important peace talks will be held in Vladimir Zelensky and Donald Trump Sunday in America.
it appears after Several months of back and forth Discussions are ongoing between Kiev, Washington, Moscow and Brussels as world leaders try to reach a deal to end the nearly four-year conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
Before Christmas, US President Trump said: “I think we’re closer now than we’ve ever been,” Try to reach agreement on a peace agreement.
Also earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky concluded talks in Berlin surrounded by European allies. He said he needed a security framework to end the war.
The United States now offers NATO-style protection, meaning the main obstacle to peace is territory – something Zelensky says he cannot and will not give up.
Zelensky said he believed the plan was “90 percent complete” and hoped details would be finalized during Sunday’s talks.
But anything about Revised 20-point plan still depends Kremlinhas yet to comment on all the details of the proposal.
Russia Until it sees these offers, Ukraine has so far remained unyielding, rejecting any possibility of returning the land or accepting Ukrainian peacekeepers.
Below, we look at what we know so far about the program and its potential issues.
Ukraine abandons NATO…
On December 14, during five hours of intense talks with US negotiators, Zelensky proposed to abandon Ukraine’s ambition to join NATO.
Trump has opposed the idea since taking office, and it may have been a while since the idea was brought to the table. But security experts said it showed Mr Zelensky’s sincere negotiating attitude.
Brett Bruun, a former foreign policy adviser in the Obama administration, said it was “a way for Zelensky to contrast Ukraine’s willingness to make significant concessions for peace in the absence of any significant concessions from Moscow.”
…and get “NATO-style” guarantees
Ukraine is still demanding clear security guarantees, which Europe has offered to back up with a “multinational force” made up of a coalition of willing members and backed by the United States.
According to U.S. officials, “90 percent” of the issues in the draft plan have now been resolved, and Washington has finally provided Ukraine with safeguards modeled on the terms of Article 5 of NATO’s collective defense.
It was an unprecedented victory for Kyiv, with Ukrainian and European leaders arguing that guarantees must precede any land swap talks.
Details remain scant, and it’s unclear what the U.S. response would be if Russia broke the peace. U.S. officials call it the “platinum standard,” but it won’t be available forever.
Russia still says it will not accept the presence of so-called NATO peacekeepers in Ukraine under any circumstances.
U.S. optimistic about territorial progress
Ukraine is constitutionally bound not to give up any land, and Zelensky insists he is unwilling or unable to give up land claimed by Russia.
The United States delegation still believes there is room for action. An official said after the talks that their side remained “very pleased with the progress we have made, including territorially”.
They said Zelensky would now convey to his team some “thought-provoking ideas” put forward by the United States.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov previously said Moscow was unwilling to make any concessions on the Donbass, Crimea or “NovoRussia,” the empire’s name for the lands north of the Black Sea.
But he was positive about progress in talks before Christmas.
“I think December 25, 2025 will remain in the memory of all of us as a milestone when we are really close to a solution,” he told Russian state television on Boxing Day.
“But whether we can make a final push and reach an agreement depends on our work and the political will of the other side.”
Zelensky welcomed the progress but admitted in comments to reporters that the issue “is a painful one because Russia wants what it wants and we can’t go any further”.
Ukraine’s future in the EU
U.S. officials said before Christmas that Russia would accept Ukraine’s membership of the European Union as part of a deal to end the war.
A senior source told AFP that Ukraine could join as early as January 2027, but diplomats in Brussels said the idea was “unrealistic”.
The issue remains controversial in parts of Europe, but the EU will support the move. Senior EU diplomat Kaja Karas explain Last month it was announced that Ukraine’s accession would itself be a “major security guarantee”.
Shared Power – Literally
One of the 28 items included in the original US draft (now reduced to 20) was the idea of sharing electricity produced by Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
Russia has controlled the Zaporozhye plant since the war began.
A U.S. official said after talks in Berlin that they were close to a deal in which the two sides could share power, although it was unclear how that would work in practice.