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After several hours of dialogue at Mar-a-Lago (Florida), the presidents of the United States, Donald Trump, and of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, assured Sunday that the peace agreement was “very close”, even if they did not manage to close some of the key aspects of the negotiation such as security guarantees for kyiv, the transfer of land or the management of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
“I think we are progressing very well. We are very close. There are one or two thorny problems, very difficult ones, but I think we are doing very well. “We have made a lot of progress today and over the last month,” Trump said in a press statement.
For his part, Zelensky said that security guarantees for Ukraine constitute a “key step towards achieving lasting peace“This is, in the opinion of the Ukrainian president, a point that is already fully sealed in the negotiations. However, Trump immediately discredited it by claiming that they “only 95% agree.”
Trump shifted the responsibility to Europe by declaring that “he’s going to take care of security.” He also stressed that he would receive “100%” aid from the United States.
“We will help Europe 100%, even if Europe will be in charge of security,” he told the press.
Negotiating team
During his statement, he also said that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to negotiate through a “working group” of their top aides to finalize a peace deal on the Ukraine conflict “in the coming weeks.”
On the American side, there will also be a working group which will constitute the dialogue table. It will consist of envoy Steve Witkoff, the president’s son-in-law Jared Kuschner, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan “Raizin” Caine.
“Ukraine is going to bring some very good people who were at the lunch this Sunday (at Mar-a-Lago),” he added.
Starting in January, this group will discuss the “thorny issues” raised by Trump. She will therefore have to resolve her differences over the ceasefire, security guarantees for kyiv from NATO and Europe and the future of the regions of Donbass, to the east of Ukraine, occupied by Russia.
These were the key points before this Sunday’s meeting and they remain unresolved after the highest level meeting in Florida.
Neither Zelensky nor Trump clarified whether they agreed to advance the possibility of creating a free trade zone in Donbass or whether they limited themselves to guaranteeing a demilitarized zone. Likewise, they did not clarify whether they were willing to recognize the start of this point on the front line or at another point in Ukrainian geography.
kyiv has proposed two options in this regard: freezing the current front line or establishing a demilitarized zone in parts of the Donetsk region that Ukraine still controls and Russia claims.
Regarding a ceasefire, Trump said they would find “ways to avoid opposition from Putin.” The Russian leader, again according to Trump’s explanations, is willing for his country help rebuild Ukraine once the war is over.
European leaders
During the meeting, the two leaders then communicated with several European leaders to discuss details of the progress of the peace negotiations.
“Notable progress has been made, Europe is ready to continue working with Ukraine and our American partners to consolidate progress,” said European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen.
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