Overview
- After a five-hour session at the Chancellery, US envoy Steve Witkoff said “large progress” was made and negotiations continue Monday with broader European participation.
- Selenskyj said Ukraine could accept giving up its NATO bid in exchange for binding security guarantees and stated the US offered assurances comparable to NATO’s Article 5.
- The evolving US plan of roughly 20 points includes a potential frontline freeze, security guarantees, and contested provisions on Crimea and parts of Donbass.
- Kyiv insists any territorial concession would require a referendum and seeks symmetry in any troop pullbacks, while monitoring of a contact line remains unresolved.
- Russia stayed out of the Berlin talks and dismissed revisions to territorial terms, as Germany rallies EU leaders to mobilize about €200–220 billion in frozen Russian assets.