US offered Ukraine a 15-year security guarantee, Zelenskyy says
WASHINGTON – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy He wants security guarantees from the United States that could last up to 50 years as part of a potential peace deal the Trump administration is pushing with Russia.
Zelenskyy told reporters a day after meeting with the President: Donald Trump He said that the USA offers a 15-year security guarantee in Florida, but he told Trump this. the war continues We have been committed to this issue for about 15 years and asked the management to consider a longer commitment.
“I told him that we really want to look at the 30, 40, 50-year possibility and that would be a historic decision to be made by President Trump. The president said he would think about it,” Zelenskyy said, according to Al Jazeera. he said.
The comments came after Zelenskyy presented his version of the plan to Trump and senior US officials at the president’s private resort in Palm Beach on December 28. The leaders later said they had made significant progress on the security framework but failed to reach agreement on the fate of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, where Russia has seized most but not all of the territory.
Russia forcing Kiev to retreat We must secede from those parts of the region still under Ukrainian control and surrender the territory in any peace agreement. Ukraine has stated its desire to turn the disputed territory into a demilitarized economic zone.
It’s a matter of who will rule Zaporizhzhya power plantEurope’s largest nuclear power plant also remains uncertain. Russia currently controls the power plant, which provided more than 20% of Ukraine’s energy before the war began.
A firefighter walks in the area where a Russian drone crashed into a residential building during a night of Russian drone and missile strikes in the midst of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Dec. 27, 2025, in Kiev, Ukraine.
Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea territory more than a decade ago, in 2014, and launched a full-scale invasion of the country in 2022, seizing the nuclear power plant and much of eastern Ukraine.
Trump pushed Zelenskyy to make a deal to quickly end the conflict, although he said ahead of the meeting that there was no definitive timeline.
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hold a press conference following their lunch meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, December 28, 2025.
At a press conference with Zelenskyy after the talks, Trump said “difficult issues” remained and that it was “possible” the conflict would not abate. Leaders spoke by phone with the heads of several major European governments for an hour Following their private meeting, another round of face-to-face meetings will potentially take place in January.
Trump said he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone for more than two hours earlier in the day and could speak to the leader again soon. He said he was for “peace” and refused to punish Putin for bombing Ukraine with missiles and drones ahead of his summit with Zelenskyy.
Kremlin said on December 29 He said another call was on the way and renewed pressure for Kiev to withdraw its troops from Donbas.
This article first appeared on USA TODAY: After Trump’s speech, Zelenskyy said that the USA offered security guarantees to Ukraine
