Ukraine and the United States will hold high-level consultations in Switzerland in the coming days to discuss possible paths toward ending the war with Russia, Ukrainian officials announced on Saturday.
The meeting comes as Washington’s 28-point peace outline – described by Ukrainian and EU officials as a virtual capitulation to Moscow – circulates among allies. The proposal includes major concessions echoing Kremlin demands.
“In the coming days in Switzerland, we are launching consultations between senior officials of Ukraine and the United States on the potential parameters of a future peace agreement,” Security Council Secretary Rustem Umerov wrote on social media.
He said Kyiv enters the talks “with a clear understanding of its national interests,” adding that the meeting marks the next phase of an intense diplomatic dialogue unfolding over recent days.
Minutes earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky approved the full Ukrainian delegation and formal negotiating directives. The team will be led by his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, and includes:
The US-backed proposal would require Ukraine to accept Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk as effectively under Russian control, hold snap elections within 100 days, cut the size of its armed forces, and abandon its NATO bid – all while sanctions on Moscow are gradually lifted.
The Trump administration has given Ukraine a Thanksgiving ultimatum – agree to the framework by Thursday or face consequences that have not been spelled out but have been repeatedly hinted at.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said, “will have to come to terms” with a 28-point “peace” plan that critics across Washington and Kyiv say bears Moscow’s fingerprints.
“Thursday is it – we think an appropriate time,” he said, speaking at the Oval Office on Friday
US officials have privately warned Kyiv that refusing to engage could affect military and intelligence support.
Zelensky, following an hour-long phone conversation with US Vice President JD Vance and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll on Friday, said that Kyiv would work “together with America and Europe” to strike a peace deal.
In a national address, he warned that the country is entering “one of the most difficult moments” of the war and vowed to present alternative terms to Washington.
Zelensky and several European leaders are now racing to revise key elements of a US peace proposal ahead of a Nov. 27 deadline, hoping to make the plan more acceptable to Kyiv.
Bloomberg reported that European governments are urgently trying to buy Ukraine more time to shape a different ceasefire framework in talks with Russia.
form the basis for a final peace settlement.” Still, again accused Kyiv of blocking peace.
