Overview
- After a multi-hour Mar-a-Lago meeting, Trump said “95%” progress was made and promised “strong” security guarantees for Ukraine, yet no agreement was reached.
- The revised U.S. 20-point proposal would freeze current front lines and no longer requires a legally binding pledge that Ukraine stay out of NATO, a change Russia has criticized.
- Trump said he had a “very productive” call with Vladimir Putin shortly before meeting Zelensky and indicated they would speak again afterward.
- Hours before the talks, Russian strikes on Kyiv and its region killed two people and left more than one million households without electricity.
- European leaders, the EU, NATO and Canada offered Zelensky full backing and close coordination with the United States, and he flagged a follow-up meeting in January.