Ukraine's Zelenskyy says a revised peace plan will be shared with U.S. on Tuesday

ukrayina testament deal a revised public security project with the U.S. On Tuesday aimed at ending Russia's war, after talks in London between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the leaders of France, Germany and Britain.

As the war nears its four-year mark, Kyiv, under pressure from the White House to agree quickly to a peace settlement, wants to balance out a U.S.-backed draft that was widely seen as favourable to Moscow.

Monday's hastily arranged meeting between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Zelenskyy aimed to strengthen Ukraine's hand.

Zelenskyy told reporters after the meeting that the revised plan comprised 20 points, but that there was still no agreement on the issue of giving up territory — for which Moscow has pushed.

"The mood of the Americans, in principle, is for finding a compromise," he said. "Of course, there are complex issues related to the territory, and a compromise has not yet been found there."

Zelenskyy repeated his oft-stated position that Ukraine cannot give up any part of its land.

Earlier, a British government source had said Monday's meeting would focus on using the value of Russian assets frozen in the West.

Leaders from Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden urged the European Union to move quickly with a stalled proposal to use those assets to provide funds for Ukraine.

Starmer, Macron, Merz and Zelenskyy are also aiming to get U.S. Security guarantees to help deter any further attacks from Russia, which launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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The publication of a U.S. Ceasefire plan last month has gone some way to focus the minds of European leaders, who fear that Kyiv could be forced to accept many Russian demands, which some say could destabilize the continent.

But although U.S. Officials said they were in the final stage of reaching an agreement, there has so far been little sign that either Ukraine or Russia is willing to sign the framework deal drawn up by Trump's negotiators.

"We stand with Ukraine and, if there was to be a ceasefire, it has to be a just and lasting ceasefire," Starmer said after welcoming the leaders to his Downing Street residence Monday.

Macron and Merz also expressed their determination to press on with a firm plan, at a time the German chancellor described as "decisive ... For all of us."

Zelenskyy pointed to the delicate balancing act the European powers need to strike as they try to negotiate better terms to the proposed U.S. Plan:

"There are some things we can't manage without the Americans, things we can't manage without Europe; that's why we need to make some important decisions."

Zelenskyy admitted in a social media post on Sunday that ultimately the prospect of peace "depends entirely on Russia."

He will leave London for Brussels, where he will meet later Monday for talks hosted by NATO chief Mark Rutte, with European Union leaders Antonio Costa and Ursula von der Leyen also present.

Ukraine is going through one of the most difficult stages in the nearly four-year war. Russian troops are slowly grinding forward in the east, and Ukrainian cities and towns are plunged into darkness for hours due to intensified Russian strikes on the energy grid and other infrastructure.

Washington's proposed ceasefire plan last month endorsed many of Russia's wartime demands. Kyiv's European allies have since backed Ukraine in seeking to improve the terms.

U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner brought a revised plan to Moscow last week, then held several days of further talks with Ukrainian officials in Miami, which ended on Saturday with no breakthrough.

Zelenskyy called the discussions constructive but not easy.

Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, the British prime minister's residence, Germany's Merz said he was "skeptical about some of the details which we are seeing in the documents coming from U.S. Side, but we have to talk about that — that's why we are here."

Trump said on Sunday, prior to hosting honours at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., that he was "disappointed" with Zelenskyy, who Trump said hadn't read the latest proposed peace deal backed by the U.S. It wasn't clear what evidence Trump had to support this contention.

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After Trump capped his remarkable political comeback last year, which included pledges on the campaign trail to quickly end the Russia-Ukraine war, his approach to Ukraine and Zelenskyy has veered from conciliatory to combative. He accused Kyiv's leaders late last month of displaying "zero gratitude" for U.S. Efforts to end the war and at times has seemed to blame Ukraine for an invasion launched by Russia in February 2022.

During his first presidential term, Trump was impeached in 2019 by the House of Representatives after it was revealed he tried to enlist Zelenskyy, then in his first weeks as Ukraine president, in a scheme to damage Trump's domestic political rival Joe Biden. Trump was subsequently acquitted by the U.S. Senate.

Trump has criticized Putin on the occasion of Russian military strikes that have killed Ukrainian civilians.

Trump's criticism of Zelenskyy came as Russia on Sunday welcomed Trump's new national security strategy and said it largely accorded with Russia's own perceptions, the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe.

Since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and its 2022 invasion of its eastern neighbour, U.S. Strategies have designated Moscow as an aggressor or a threat that was trying to destabilize the post-Cold War order by force.

The U.S. National Security Strategy is the latest in a series of statements by American officials that have upended postwar assumptions about Europe's close relationship with its strongest ally, the United States.

European politicians and officials have bridled at Washington's tone but as they hurry to rebuild their neglected militaries to meet a perceived threat from Russia, they still rely heavily on U.S. Military support.

Trump has encouraged Ukraine's allies to buy weaponry from U.S. Arms manufacturers, but has stopped providing billions in military and humanitarian aid provided to Ukraine by the previous Democratic administration led by Joe Biden.

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The strategy, signed by Trump, also warned that Europe faces "civilizational erasure."

"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European," the document said. "As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter."

Some European commentators said the document echoed talking points of far-right European political parties, which have grown to become the main opposition to governments in Germany, France and other traditional U.S. Allies.

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