Overview
- Zelensky said the draft 20‑point agreement should be signed by Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the United States, with a four‑party technical working group to finalize and implement it.
- Both presidents reported major headway on security guarantees for Ukraine, with Zelensky calling the U.S.–Ukraine clause fully agreed and Trump putting it at about 95%, as Macron set a Paris meeting in early January to lock in European contributions.
- The leaders said they aim to complete the documents within weeks and discussed a possible follow‑up meeting in Washington with European counterparts.
- The Institute for the Study of War assessed that Russian forces control less than half of Mirnograd and that Kremlin officials are inflating battlefield gains, including during a 27 December briefing to Putin.
- Ukraine’s military recorded 209 combat engagements in the past day with 52 assaults in the Pokrovsk sector, while Zelensky reported roughly 94 missiles, over 2,100 attack drones and about 800 guided bombs used by Russia in a week, and regional officials reported new civilian casualties.