Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that he will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday amid talks to end the four-year war between Russia and Ukraine.
Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv that the two leaders will discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, and that the 20-point plan under discussion “is about 90% ready.”
“The 20-point plan we have been working on is 90% ready,” he said. “Our task is to make sure everything is 100% ready. This is not easy, and no one says that 100% will happen immediately. But still, with each such meeting and each such conversation, we must bring the desired result closer.”
In a post on X, Zelenskyy confirmed the meeting.
“We are not losing a single day. We have agreed on a meeting at the highest level — with President Trump in the near future,” Zelenskyy wrote on X on Friday.
U.S. officials did not respond to requests for confirmation that the presidents would meet on Sunday. Trump said in November that he would only meet with Zelenskyy or Putin if a deal was reached or in its “final stages.”
The announcement came a day after Zelenskyy said he had held a “good conversation” with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
Zelenskyy said that he would be willing to negotiate handing over some territory if Moscow is ready to “pull back their troops accordingly”.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday that there had been “slow but steady progress” in the peace talks, but Russia has not indicated that it will agree to any kind of withdrawal.
Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces hit the Novoshakhtinsk refinery in Russia’s Rostov region. “Multiple explosions were recorded. The target was hit,” it wrote on Telegram.
“There are partial disruptions to the power supply,” Kuleba said in a statement on Telegram on Friday.
