kyiv and LONDON – Amid a proposed U.S. plan to end Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine, the Office of the President of Ukraine said Saturday that “consultations on measures to end the war will be held in the coming days.”
“Yesterday, the President of Ukraine approved the composition of the Ukrainian delegation and the guidelines for the relevant talks,” the president’s office said in a statement posted on social media. “We anticipate constructive work and are willing to move as quickly as possible to achieve real peace.”
“Ukraine never wanted this war and will do everything possible to end it with a dignified peace,” the statement continued. “Ukraine will never be an obstacle to peace and representatives of the Ukrainian state will defend the legitimate interests of the Ukrainian people and the foundations of European security. We appreciate the willingness of our European partners to help.”
In another statement posted on social media on Saturday, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov said that “we are launching consultations between high-ranking officials of Ukraine and the United States on the possible parameters of a future peace agreement in Switzerland.”
Earlier this week, the White House presented kyiv with a new 28-point peace plan drawn up in coordination with Moscow that contains conditions widely seen in Ukraine as effectively demanding the country’s capitulation.
U.S. Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll and Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George led a U.S. delegation to kyiv on Wednesday, and a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News that the group was read about the new peace plan. The US military officials are the highest-ranking delegation to visit Ukraine since President Donald Trump took office in January.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a joint news conference with Turkey’s president following their meeting at the presidential complex in Ankara on Nov. 19, 2025. Zelensky said he wants to revitalize the frozen peace talks, which have collapsed after several rounds of talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul this year failed to achieve a breakthrough. Moscow did not accept a ceasefire and instead continued to advance on the front and bombard Ukrainian cities.
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“Since the first days of the war, we have taken an extremely simple position: Ukraine needs peace,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his speech on Friday night. “And a real peace, a peace that will not be broken by a third invasion.”
Driscoll met with Zelenskyy for an hour on Thursday and discussed “a collaborative plan to achieve peace in Ukraine,” according to a US official.
“This is a comprehensive plan to end the war,” the official said of the plan, which was described as a collaboration between the United States and Ukraine.
The plan includes a series of maximalist demands that the Kremlin has long demanded and have previously been dismissed as impossible for kyiv, including that Ukraine reduce its armed force by more than half and cede swaths of territory not yet occupied by Russia, according to a Ukrainian official.
Ukraine would also be banned from possessing long-range weapons, while Moscow would retain virtually all of the territory it has occupied and receive some form of recognition for its 2014 seizure of Crimea under the latest plan proposed by the United States.
ABC News’ Luis Martinez and Oleksiy Pshemyskiy contributed to this report.
