Zelensky seeks peace in Mar a Lago

The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will meet the president today USA, Donald Trump and will try to obtain his consent for a new proposal aimed at putting an end to the conflict with Russia which has lasted for almost four years. The 20-point plan which emerged from weeks of intense negotiations between the United States and Ukraine, does not have Moscow’s approval, and the face-to-face meeting in Florida comes after a massive Russian missile and drone attack on Kiev.

The meeting, hosted by Trump in his luxury residence in Mar-a-Lagowill be the first in-person meeting between the two since October, when the US president refused to grant Zelensky’s request to long-range Tomahawk missiles. During a stop in Canada on Saturday, Zelensky said he hoped the talks would be “very constructive” and added that the Russian leader Vladimir Putin he showed his cards with the last one assault on the Ukrainian capital. After the talks, the Canadian government committed to supporting the reconstruction in Ukraine with an additional financing of 1.8 billion dollars. “This attack is, once again, Russia’s response to ours peace efforts. And this really showed that Putin does not want peace,” Zelensky said – The Europeans promise support.”

European support and the Russian position

Yesterday, the Ukrainian president also had a conference call con i leader europei who, according to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, have guaranteed theirs full support to his peace efforts. Russia accused Ukraine and its European backers of trying to “torpedo” an earlier U.S.-brokered plan to end the fighting. The leaders of theUE Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa, who participated in the conference call, reiterating that the European Union support for Ukraine will never fail and they have promised to continue to put pressure on the Kremlin to reach an agreement. Trump has so far not spoken out on the issue new peace proposal. Zelensky “has nothing until I approve him,” the president said in an interview with Politico on Friday.

Details of the peace plan and Trump’s role

The talks will concern a plan that would end the war along the current front lines and could require Ukraine to withdraw troops from the east, allowing the creation of demilitarized buffer zones. As such, it contains Kiev’s most explicit recognition of possible territorial concessionsbut does not provide for Ukraine’s withdrawal from 20% of the eastern region of Donetsk which he still controls, Russia’s main territorial claim. Trump has made ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza the centerpiece of his self-proclaimed second term as “president of peace“. But the war in Ukraine proved, by his own admission, much tougher than expected, and the President has repeatedly expressed his frustration with both sides for failing to secure a truce.