A conversation among Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump and European leaders is now over, the Ukrainian presidency said today.
Zelensky and Trump spoke to the leaders in a phone call as the two presidents met in Florida to discuss the latest peace proposal for Ukraine.
The call lasted over an hour, and the leaders discussed “concrete steps” to end the war, Finnish President Alexander Stubb wrote in a post on X.
Participants on the call included the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Norway, as well as the NATO secretary general and the president of the European Commission, Stubb wrote.
“We are all working towards a just and lasting peace,” Stubb said.
“There was good progress, which we welcomed,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said later in a post on X. “Europe is ready to keep working with Ukraine and our US partners to consolidate this progress.
Paramount to this effort is to have ironclad security guarantees from day one.”
Britain is committed “to working closely with partners to sustain momentum in the coming days,” the office of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said after the conference call. European leaders commended Trump during the call “for the progress achieved so far” and “reaffirmed the urgency of ending this barbaric war as soon as possible,” a Downing Street spokesman said in a statement.
French President Emmanuel Macron posted on X: “We are making progress on the security guarantees” essential for peace in Ukraine. “We will bring together the countries of the Coalition of the Willing in Paris in early January to finalize each country’s concrete contributions.”
CNN’s Svitlana Vlasova and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this post.