Overview
- National security advisers from roughly 15 supporting states, plus the EU and NATO, met in Kyiv to review framework documents that include security guarantees and peace-plan approaches.
- Ukraine says senior partners will reconvene in France on Tuesday for a follow-up session to advance the drafts.
- The United States participated via special envoy Steve Witkoff, who joined the Kyiv discussions by video link.
- Russia was not at the table, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine will continue to defend itself if diplomacy and partner pressure do not halt the war.
- Zelenskyy praised a recent U.S. operation in Venezuela as a show of resolve, a remark interpreted in Ukrainian media as signaling to Moscow.