Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said the chief unresolved issues are territorial arrangements in the Donetsk region and control and monitoring of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
- Senior officials from the United States, Ukraine, France, Germany and the United Kingdom are expected to meet in Paris on December 13 to address contentious points of President Trump's plan, Axios reported.
- Zelensky reported a "constructive and deep" discussion with senior U.S. officials on security guarantees, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and NATO's Mark Rutte, with work continuing.
- EU ambassadors approved procedural changes allowing a qualified majority to keep Russian assets frozen indefinitely under Article 122, reducing the risk of a single-country veto.
- Ukraine's Air Forces said they downed 83 attack drones and two Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles overnight, and the Security Service detained two suspected GRU operatives accused of scouting energy targets in the Kyiv region.