KYIV and LONDON — Amid a U.S.-proposed plan to finish Russia’s almost four-year war in Ukraine, the Workplace of the President of Ukraine stated Saturday that “consultations on steps to finish the battle will happen within the coming days.”
“Yesterday, the President of Ukraine accepted the composition of the Ukrainian delegation and the directives for the related talks,” the president’s workplace stated in an announcement posted on social media. “We anticipate constructive work and are able to advance as swiftly as potential to attain an actual peace.”
“Ukraine by no means wished this battle and can make each effort to finish it with a dignified peace,” the assertion continued. “Ukraine won’t ever be an impediment for peace, and the representatives of the Ukrainian state will defend official pursuits of the Ukrainian individuals and the foundations of European safety. We’re grateful for our European companions’ willingness to assist.”
In one other assertion posted on social media Saturday, the secretary of Ukraine’s Nationwide Safety and Protection Council, Rustem Umerov, stated “we’re beginning consultations between high-ranking officers of Ukraine and the USA on the potential parameters of a future peace settlement in Switzerland.”
Earlier this week, the White Home introduced Kyiv with a brand new 28-point peace plan drawn up in coordination with Moscow that accommodates circumstances which are broadly seen in Ukraine as successfully demanding the nation’s capitulation.
U.S. Military Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll and Chief of Workers Gen. Randy George led an American delegation to Kyiv on Wednesday, with a U.S. official confirming to ABC Information that the group was learn in on the brand new peace plan. The U.S. army officers are probably the most senior delegation to go to Ukraine since President Donald Trump took workplace in January.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a joint press convention with Turkey’s President following their assembly on the Presidential Advanced in Ankara on November 19, 2025. Zelensky stated he needs to reinvigorate frozen peace talks, which have faltered after a number of rounds of Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul this yr didn’t yield a breakthrough. Moscow has not agreed to a ceasefire and as an alternative saved advancing on the entrance and bombarding Ukrainian cities.
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A U.S. official informed ABC Information Saturday {that a} U.S. delegation together with Driscoll, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and envoy Steve Witkoff will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, with a Ukrainian delegation.
Moreover, the official stated there are plans for the U.S. delegation to carry a separate assembly with a Russian delegation. No particulars had been offered concerning the location of the deliberate assembly with the Russians.
“For the reason that first days of the battle, we’ve got taken one, very simple place: Ukraine wants peace,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in his Friday night deal with. “And an actual peace — one that won’t be damaged by a 3rd invasion.”
Driscoll met with Zelenskyy for an hour on Thursday and mentioned “a collaborative plan to attain peace in Ukraine,” based on a U.S. official.
“It is a complete plan to finish the battle,” the official stated of the plan, which was described as a collaboration between the U.S. and Ukraine.
The plan contains a lot of maximalist calls for that the Kremlin has lengthy demanded and which have been beforehand dismissed as non-starters for Kyiv, together with that Ukraine lower its armed pressured by greater than half and cede swaths of territory not but occupied by Russia, based on a Ukrainian official.
Ukraine would even be forbidden from possessing long-range weapons, whereas Moscow would retain just about all of the territory it has occupied — and obtain some type of recognition of its 2014 seizure of Crimea beneath the newest proposed U.S. plan.
ABC Information’ Luis Martinez and Oleksiy Pshemyskiy contributed to this report.
