Overview
- Zelensky said Ukraine will deliver an updated, roughly 20-point peace framework to the White House after consultations with European leaders.
- He outlined parallel documents on security guarantees and postwar recovery that Kyiv is preparing with European partners for U.S. review.
- The Ukrainian president reiterated that no ceding of land is acceptable, citing Ukrainian law, the constitution and international law.
- President Trump and his envoys pressed Kyiv to reply within days to a U.S.-backed plan and said Ukraine is "losing," while a Ukrainian official said there is no Christmas deadline.
- European governments are weighing security guarantees, limited troop deployments and use of frozen Russian assets as Russia claims local gains and warns it would answer any Western deployments or asset seizures.