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Ukraine has presented the U.S. with a revised 20-point model to extremity its warfare with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Thursday (December 11, 2025), adding that the contented of ceding territory remains a large sticking constituent successful negotiations.
Speaking to reporters successful Kyiv, Mr. Zelenskyy said the U.S. is offering arsenic a compromise to make a "free economical zone" successful the Ukraine-controlled parts of the eastbound Donbas which Russia has demanded that Ukraine cede.
"They spot it arsenic Ukrainian troops withdrawing from the Donetsk region, and the compromise is supposedly that Russian troops volition not participate this portion of Donetsk region. They bash not cognize who volition govern this territory," helium said, adding that Russia is referring to it arsenic a "demilitarized zone".
However, Mr. Zelenskyy said determination was inactive nary communal knowing connected the onshore contented and that Ukrainians should ballot connected immoderate territorial concessions successful a referendum.
Kyiv, successful the latest circular of frantic shuttle diplomacy, is seeking to equilibrium retired a 28-point U.S.-backed program whose archetypal mentation was seen arsenic excessively favourable to Moscow.
Mr. Zelenskyy added that Russia's withdrawal from slivers of onshore successful the northeastern Kharkiv and Sumy regions, arsenic good arsenic the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, was portion of the discussion.
The interaction lines successful the partially occupied confederate regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson would beryllium frozen wherever they are, helium added.
The U.S. besides offered imaginable associated governance of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest specified installation successful Europe and presently occupied by Russia, which wants to support the presumption nether its ain control.
Pressure to unafraid peace
Ukraine is nether mounting U.S. unit to rapidly unafraid a woody with Russia, which has stepped up advances connected the frontline successful caller months and renewed monolithic attacks connected Ukrainian vigor infrastructure.
Zelenskiy, pursuing reports that President Donald Trump had set a Christmas deadline for Ukraine to judge the peace proposal, said Washington had not fixed Kyiv a strict timeline.
"I deliberation they truly wanted, oregon possibly inactive want, to have a implicit knowing of wherever we basal with this agreement by Christmas," helium said.
Apart from a 20-point framework, the wide bid program will include abstracted documents connected information guarantees, to prevent Russia from attacking again, and connected rebuilding Ukraine's war-hit cities.
Ukraine, which says it has been fto down by previous security assurances from allies, insists that guarantees are ratified successful parliament.
Zelenskiy said connected Thursday helium had an "in-depth" discussion on the substance with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and White House peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff.
Kyiv besides wants to support a beardown service aft warring ends, and Mr. Zelenskyy said the latest draught connection puts it astatine 800,000 — higher than successful an archetypal framework, according to reports.
