Ukraine’s president met with U.S. negotiators about plans to end the war with Russia. He said he would give up hopes of joining NATO in exchange for security guarantees.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met in Germany on Sunday with President Trump’s negotiators in what was viewed as a critical round of talks to try to agree on a plan to end the war with Russia.
As Mr. Trump pushes Mr. Zelensky to take a deal, saying Ukraine is losing, Mr. Zelensky made it clear that the country was willing to compromise on certain issues.
He reiterated before the meeting that Ukraine would give up on its hopes to join NATO, at least for now, as long as it won strong security guarantees from the United States to prevent Russia from again invading if a peace deal was reached. But Mr. Zelensky also repeated that Ukraine did not want to cede territory that it now controls, as the Trump administration has suggested.
Mr. Zelensky told reporters that he expected to receive details on proposed American security guarantees.
The meeting lasted more than five hours, and it is to continue on Monday, according to Mr. Zelensky’s office. It said he would comment on the results of the meetings on Monday.
The Ukrainian president met with Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law. They have shuttled between talks with Ukrainian officials, European leaders and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia over the past three weeks to try to end the war launched by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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