Overview
- Zelensky directed his negotiating team to submit the U.S. security guarantees document for consideration by both presidents after a final review.
- He tasked Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka, and Economy Minister Oleksii Sobolev with expert oversight of the economic terms linked to bilateral and trilateral accords.
- Kyiv says Washington is in contact with Moscow on a political framework to end the war, and Zelensky demanded clear Russian feedback or stepped-up pressure on its revenues.
- A White House official said Trump’s team has made “tremendous progress” toward ending the war in recent weeks, following Paris talks where Kyiv said the text was effectively ready to agree with the U.S.
- Trump said on Jan. 11 he is prepared to assume commitments on U.S. participation in future guarantees, and U.S. envoys reportedly met a Russian counterpart in Paris on Jan. 7 to discuss Washington’s plan.