{"id":477774,"date":"2025-12-29T14:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/477774\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:13:11","slug":"us-offers-ukraine-security-guarantee-as-part-of-peace-plan-zelenskyy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/477774\/","title":{"rendered":"US offers Ukraine security guarantee as part of peace plan, Zelenskyy says"},"content":{"rendered":"

By ILLIA NOVIKOV, Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees<\/a> for a period of 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday, though he said he would prefer an American commitment of up to 50 years to deter Russia from further attempts to seize its neighbor\u2019s land<\/a> by force.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Zelenskyy<\/a> at his Florida resort on Sunday and insisted that Ukraine and Russia are \u201ccloser than ever before\u201d to a peace settlement.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump and Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands at the start of a joint news conference following a meeting at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago club, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/p>\n

Negotiators are still searching for a breakthrough on key issues, however, including whose forces withdraw from where and the fate of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant<\/a>, one of the 10 biggest in the world. Trump noted that the monthslong U.S.-led negotiations could still collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout security guarantees, realistically, this war will not end,\u201d Zelenskyy told reporters in voice messages responding to questions sent via a Whatsapp chat.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has been fighting Russia since 2014, when it illegally annexed Crimea and Moscow-backed separatists took up arms in the Donbas, a vital industrial region in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Details of the security guarantees have not become public but Zelenskyy said Monday that they include how a peace deal would be monitored as well as the \u201cpresence\u201d of partners. He didn\u2019t elaborate, but Russia has said it won\u2019t accept the deployment in Ukraine of troops from NATO countries.<\/p>\n

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump were expected to speak in the near future but there was no indication the Russian leader would speak to Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron said Kyiv\u2019s allies will meet in Paris in early January to \u201cfinalize each country\u2019s concrete contributions\u201d to the security guarantees.<\/p>\n

Trump said he would consider extending U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine beyond 15 years, according to Zelenskyy. The guarantees would be approved by the U.S. Congress as well as by parliaments in other countries involved in overseeing any settlement, he said.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said he wants the 20-point peace plan under discussion to be approved by Ukrainians in a national referendum.<\/p>\n

However, holding a ballot requires a ceasefire of at least 60 days, and Moscow has shown no willingness for a truce without a full settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ILLIA NOVIKOV, Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":477775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,216437,3657,3549,7264,91385,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-477774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-donald-trump-peace-plan","12":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-trump-zelenskyy-meeting","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115803272375857268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}