Trump says he will "only" meet with Putin and Zelensky when a peace agreement is final

Washington.- The President of the United States, Donald Trump, assured this Tuesday that he wants to meet "soon" with his counterparts from Ukraine and Russia, Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin, respectively, but "only" once the peace plan to end the war between these two countries is "final".

"I look forward to being able to meet soon with President Zelensky and President Putin, but ONLY when the agreement to end this war is FINALIZED or is in its final phase", Trump wrote in a message on his platform, Truth Social.

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The North American leader assured that his team has achieved "significant progress regarding the end of the war between Russia and Ukraine". "The original 28-point peace plan, drafted by the United States, has been refined with additional input from both sides, and only a few points of disagreement remain," Trump added. With the aim of ending this peace plan, the U.S. head of state ordered his special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Putin in Moscow and, at the same time, that the U.S. Army secretary, Dan Driscoll, meet with the Ukrainians. As Trump said, he will receive any progress that emerges from those meetings along with the Vice President, JD Vance; the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio; the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and the White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. Trump had given until this Thursday, Thanksgiving Day in the United States, for Ukraine to accept the peace plan initially negotiated between Washington and Moscow and subsequently discussed with Kyiv. This agreement, which Washington presented to Zelensky last week, would force Ukraine to reduce its army and cede territory to Russia, including areas that have not been militarily conquered.

Following the weekend negotiations in Geneva between the United States and Ukraine, a new nineteen-point agreement proposal emerged, more favorable to Kyiv and its European partners, but Moscow accuses the initiative of trying to "undermine" the peace process.