During the negotiations on the peace initiative proposed by USA, the parties have not reached an agreement on the future of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a telephone interview on Monday morning. Bloomberg .
"There is a vision of the US, Russia and Ukraine, and we do not have a common opinion on Donbas," the publication quotes Zelensky as saying.
According to the President of Ukraine, Kyiv insists on a separate agreement on security guarantees from Western allies, primarily the United States.
"There is one question that I - and all Ukrainians - want to get an answer to: if Russia starts a war again, what will our partners do," Zelensky said.
Peace plan discussions: latest news
As UNIAN previously reported, US President Donald Trump recently Trump criticized Zelensky through the US peace plan. When asked about the next step in the negotiations to end the war, he said that the Ukrainian president had apparently not yet familiarized himself with the plan. At the same time, he noted that Russia was apparently willing to accept the peace agreement, and Zelensky's team"liked" the agreement. But he did not know whether Zelensky himself agreed.
Meanwhile, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov, who has been holding talks in the United States in recent days with the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Andriy Hnatov, said that Zelensky will receive"full information" today about Trump's peace plan. He also said that all documents will be handed over.
Zelensky himself will meet in London on Monday, December 8, according to the Financial Times, with European leaders who will support Ukraine amid increasing pressure from the US. In addition to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the summit will be attended by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
