{"id":619207,"date":"2025-12-08T03:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619207\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T03:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:11:22","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-peace-talks-with-us-constructive-but-not-easy-says-zelenskyy-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619207\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Peace talks with US constructive but \u2018not easy\u2019, says Zelenskyy | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Volodymyr Zelenskyy said talks with US representatives <\/a>on a peace plan for Ukraine had been constructive but not easy as he pivoted to planned consultations with European leaders over coming days.<\/strong> The Ukrainian president held a call on Saturday with Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner and is set to meet with the UK\u2019s Keir Starmer, France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron and Germany\u2019s Friedrich Merz in London on Monday<\/a> for talks on the peace negotiations. \u201cThe American representatives know the basic Ukrainian positions,\u201d Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Sunday. \u201cThe conversation was constructive, although not easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni spoke with Zelenskyy by phone on Sunday ahead of his planned visits to London, Brussels and Rome and reaffirmed Italy\u2019s solidarity<\/strong> after what she called a fresh wave of \u201cindiscriminate\u201d Russian strikes on civilian targets, her office said. Meloni announced the dispatch of emergency supplies to support Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure and population and said generators provided by Italian companies would be shipped in the coming weeks, the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    British foreign secretary Yvette Cooper will meet her American counterpart Marco Rubio in Washington on Monday<\/strong>, the UK Foreign Office announced, amid the intensified push to end the war in Ukraine. The visit is her first to the US capital since becoming the UK\u2019s top diplomat in September. \u201cThe UK and US will reaffirm their commitment to reaching a peace deal in Ukraine,\u201d the Foreign Office said, also noting Britain supported Donald Trump\u2019s \u201congoing efforts to secure a just and lasting peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The Kremlin has heaped praise on Trump\u2019s latest national security strategy<\/a><\/strong>, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with Russian thinking. The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday that criticises the EU and says Europe is at risk of \u201ccivilisational erasure\u201d, while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia, reports Shaun Walker<\/a>. US officials claim they are in the final stage of reaching a peace agreement but there is little sign that either Ukraine or Russia is willing to sign the framework deal drawn up by Trump\u2019s negotiating team.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president\u2019s oldest son has said<\/strong>. In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr<\/a> also said in comments to a Middle East conference that Ukraine\u2019s \u201ccorrupt\u201d rich had fled their country, leaving \u201cwhat they believed to be the peasant class\u201d to fight the war, reports Patrick Wintour<\/a>. Meanwhile, Trump said he felt \u201ca little bit disappointed\u201d with Zelenskyy for not engaging with the US plan to end the war, claiming on Sunday that the Ukrainian president \u201chasn\u2019t yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Russian missile, drone and shelling attacks on Sunday and Saturday night killed at least four people in Ukraine. <\/strong>Three people were killed and 10 others wounded in shelling by Russian troops in Ukraine\u2019s Kharkiv region, the regional prosecutor said, while local officials in the Chernihiv region said a man was killed in a drone attack and that a combined missile and drone attack on infrastructure in the central city of Kremenchuk caused power and water outages.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volodymyr Zelenskyy said talks with US representatives on a peace plan for Ukraine had been constructive but not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-619207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115681760578690268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}