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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy consulted with allies connected Saturday (December 27, 2025) and won renewed expressions of enactment up of a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, hours aft Russia pummelled Kyiv with drones and missiles successful its latest onslaught connected the capital.
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During a stopover successful Canada en way to Florida for the Trump meeting, the Ukrainian President spoke archetypal with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Then, successful a league call, helium briefed EU, NATO and European leaders, who gave him their "full support" according to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
EU main Ursula von der Leyen said successful a societal media station that they welcomed "a conscionable and lasting bid that preserves Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity".
Mr. Zelenskyy said the Russian onslaught showed Moscow had nary volition of ending the penetration it launched successful February 2022 and which has killed tens of thousands of people.
"This onslaught is again, Russia's reply connected our bid efforts. And this truly showed that Putin doesn't privation peace, and we privation peace," Mr. Zelenskyy said earlier gathering the Canadian premier.
Mr. Carney said the latest Russian onslaught underscored the request to basal by Ukraine.
"We person the conditions... of a conscionable and lasting peace, but that requires a consenting Russia, and the barbarism that we saw overnight... shows conscionable however important it is that we basal with Ukraine," said Mr. Carney.
Russia has accused Ukraine and its European backers of trying to "torpedo" a erstwhile U.S.-brokered program to halt the fighting.
Adding to unit connected the battlefield, Russia announced connected Saturday it had captured 2 much towns successful eastbound Ukraine, Myrnograd and Guliaipole.
"If the authorities successful Kyiv don't privation to settee this concern peacefully, we'll resoluteness each the problems earlier america by subject means," Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday.
'They bash not privation to extremity the war'
The overnight barrage of drones and missiles, which targeted Kyiv for astir 10 hours, killed 2 people, wounded dozens and chopped powerfulness and heating to much than a cardinal of the region's residents during freezing temperatures, Ukraine authorities said.
Mr. Zelenskyy said immoderate 500 drones and 40 missiles had pounded the superior and its surrounding region.
"Russian representatives prosecute successful lengthy talks, but successful reality, Kinzhals (missiles) and Shaheds (drones) talk for them," helium said.
"They bash not privation to extremity the warfare and question to usage each accidental to origin Ukraine adjacent greater suffering," helium added.
Neighbouring Poland, a NATO member, scrambled jets and enactment aerial defences connected alert during the attack, its subject said connected societal media.
'Security guarantees should beryllium strong'
Sunday's gathering successful Florida is to absorption connected a new, 20-point program that would frost the warfare connected its existent beforehand line. It could necessitate Ukraine to propulsion backmost troops from the east, allowing the instauration of demilitarised buffer zones, according to details revealed by Mr. Zelenskyy this week.
The caller plan, formulated with Ukraine's input, is Kyiv's astir explicit acknowledgement yet of imaginable territorial concessions.
It is simply a marked departure from an archetypal 28-point connection by Washington past period that adhered to galore of Russia's halfway demands.
Mr. Trump, speaking to quality outlet Politico connected Friday, said of Mr. Zelenskyy's program that "he doesn't person thing until I o.k. it". He added: "So we'll spot what he's got."
Part of the program includes abstracted US-Ukraine bilateral agreements connected information guarantees, reconstruction and the economy.
Mr. Zelenskyy said those were changing daily. "As for delicate issues, we volition sermon (the eastbound portion of) Donbas and the Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant," helium added.
Mr. Zelenskyy said his gathering with the U.S. person was aimed astatine reducing unresolved issues to a minimum.
"Of course, contiguous determination are reddish lines for Ukraine and Ukrainian people. There are compromise proposals. All of these issues are precise sensitive," helium said connected X.
Meanwhile, Ukraine needed European and US enactment to get weapons and funds, some of which were insufficient, Mr. Zelenskyy said — "in peculiar for the accumulation of weapons and, astir importantly, drones".
In negotiations, Ukraine's "most important information — if we instrumentality definite steps — is that information guarantees should beryllium beardown and we should beryllium protected", helium said.
Ukraine is moving with the U.S. connected a roadmap for the country's reconstruction, said Mr. Zelenskyy, which volition necessitate betwixt $700 cardinal and $800 billion.
