Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelensky detailed the US-brokered framework from Miami talks, saying consensus was reached on many clauses while control of Donetsk and Luhansk and the future of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant remain unsettled.
- The draft would freeze current lines in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson and explores demilitarised or free economic zones requiring reciprocal pullbacks, with any Ukrainian withdrawal subject to a nationwide referendum.
- Security provisions outline NATO-like guarantees via a separate US–Ukraine document, an immediate ceasefire upon signature, satellite and early‑warning monitoring, international forces along the contact line, and presidential elections after a deal is signed.
- Terms under discussion include a Russian pullout from Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Sumy and Kharkiv regions, a peacetime force cap of 800,000 for Ukraine, a defined path to EU membership, expanded US–Ukraine trade, and a recovery package targeting up to $800 billion.
- US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are leading mediation, Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev has briefed Vladimir Putin on the draft, and competing proposals for Zaporizhzhia pit a US‑proposed trilateral venture against Kyiv’s US–Ukraine joint model.