{"id":38581,"date":"2025-12-27T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=38581"},"modified":"2025-12-27T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:20:34","slug":"zelensky-plans-to-meet-trump-on-sunday-for-talks-on-ending-russian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/zelensky-plans-to-meet-trump-on-sunday-for-talks-on-ending-russian-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky plans to meet Trump on Sunday for talks on ending Russian war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>BBC:<\/strong> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will meet his US counterpart Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, as talks continue on ending Russia&#8217;s full-scale war.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky said he expected the meeting to focus on a US-brokered peace plan, and separate proposals for US security guarantees. But a senior Russian official said the plan was &#8220;radically different&#8221; to the one it was negotiating with the US.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has spoken of &#8220;slow but steady progress&#8221; in talks but has not commented on Zelensky&#8217;s offer to withdraw troops from Ukraine&#8217;s eastern Donbas region, if Russia pulls back too.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, blasts were heard in Kyiv, in what Ukrainian officials said was a new Russian aerial attack.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv Major Vitaliy Klitschko said Ukraine&#8217;s air defence forces were repelling the attack, urging residents of the Ukrainian capital to go shelters. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow currently controls about 75% of the Donetsk region, and some 99% of the neighbouring Luhansk. The regions are collectively known as Donbas.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has sought to secure guarantees from the US as part of a peace deal, and Zelensky has suggested that a demilitarised &#8220;free economic zone&#8221; is a potential option for areas of Donbas that Russia has failed to take by force.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Zelensky told reporters that the 20-point plan was 90% complete: &#8220;Our task is to make sure everything is 100% ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He wrote on social media: &#8220;We are not losing a single day. We have agreed on a meeting at the highest level \u2013 with President Trump in the near future. A lot can be decided before the new year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will meet his US counterpart Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, as talks continue on ending Russia&#8217;s full-scale war. Zelensky said he expected the meeting to focus on a US-brokered peace plan, and separate proposals for US security guarantees. But a senior Russian official said the plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38584,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581\/revisions\/38584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}