Overview
- Ukraine has delivered a roughly 20‑point counterproposal with separate security and reconstruction papers that centers on a Korean‑style frontline freeze without legal recognition of Russian gains.
- The package calls for immediate‑response security guarantees akin to a strengthened Article 5 and rejects limits on the size of Ukraine’s armed forces.
- Zelensky proposes accelerated European Union accession by 2027, a target met with skepticism in Brussels even as Kyiv presses for a special pathway.
- EU ambassadors moved a revised Article 122 approach to manage frozen Russian reserves held via Euroclear and renew their immobilization, with Hungary and Slovakia opposing the step.
- Security advisers from Ukraine, the United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom are scheduled to meet Saturday in Paris, as Europe pushes to be at the table and Moscow warns any European ‘peacekeepers’ would be targets, while Putin claims battlefield gains and Kyiv reports a drone strike on a Caspian oil platform.