Over the last week, in negotiations with the U.S., Ukraine’s acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has simply refused any compromise on territory. He blames Washington for pushing a territorial compromise which Ukraine cannot accept. Now, [Financial Times} writes that on Dec. Dec. 13, Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, had given him “days to respond to a proposed peace deal requiring Ukraine to accept territorial losses in exchange for unspecified U.S. security guarantees, according to officials briefed on the conversations.” Zelenskyy reportedly told them that he had to talk with his partners about the U.S. proposal first. But it turns out that he has no plans to address the proposal, and plans to again change the subject.
On Dec. 8, Zelenskyy met at No. 10 Downing Street in London with the European Big Three Coalition of the Willing ( to continue endless war)—U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron—after which he proceeded to Brussels, to confer there with NATO’s Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and EU’s António Costa. Zelenskyy complained to his European partners, “that he had been pressed, during a two-hour call on Saturday, to take a swift decision by Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and the U.S. President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.” (That so-called “swift decision” came after extended negotiations over the previous two days.) Zelenskyy called for assurances that the EU would not succumb to fears of upsetting Washington, and drop the plan to grab Russian assets for funding Ukraine.
