Ukraine’s acting president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll that he’s willing to work with the Trump administration on its new plan for peace in Ukraine, [Axios reported](https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/trump-ukraine-plan-zelenskyy-driscoll-meeting ) on Nov. 20, citing unnamed U.S. and Ukrainian officials. According to Axios, the plan calls on Ukraine to make enormous concessions, including handing over territory to Russia that Ukraine currently controls, but rather than reject it outright, Zelenskyy agreed to negotiate—and his office said he expects to discuss it with U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days.
“Today, during a meeting with the U.S. Secretary of the Army, Daniel Driscoll, we discussed options for achieving real peace, the sequencing of our work and formats for dialogue, as well as new impulses for diplomacy,” Zelenskyy said in a statement on X. “Our teams—of Ukraine and the United States—will work on the provisions of the plan to end the war. We are ready for constructive, honest and swift work.” He added: “Peace is needed, and we appreciate the efforts of President Trump and his team aimed at restoring security in Europe.”
The Nov. 20 meeting followed a blizzard of press reporting—including from Axios—that the concessions in President Trump’s 28-point plan included Kiev giving up the two Donbass regions—including parts of the Donetsk region that Kiev still controls, as well as the parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. A Ukrainian official claimed that the plan also included limitations on the size of the Ukrainian military, and on its long-range weapons, in return for U.S. security guarantees.
