The officials said talks with US President Donald Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, led to narrowing differences on security guarantees that Kyiv said must be provided, as well as Moscow’s contentious demand that Ukraine concede land in the eastern Donbas region. The US officials also said there was consensus on about 90% of the US-authored peace plan, and that Russia had indicated it was open to Ukraine joining the European Union, something it previously said it did not object to. German chancellor Friedrich Merz said the Ukrainians, Americans and Europeans agreed that “a ceasefire should be secured by substantial legal and material security guarantees from the US and Europe”, calling it a “truly far-reaching, substantial agreement that we did not have before, namely that both Europe and the US are jointly prepared to do this”.
Author: Press Association
Published at: 2025-12-15 22:16:03
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