Zelenskyy, Vance discuss US peace plan for Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with US Vice President JD Vance on November 21 about the Trump administration’s proposed Ukraine peace plan, according to two sources familiar with the call.

Zelenskyy told the administration he is prepared to negotiate, the sources told Axios, though President Trump has publicly pushed for a deal to be signed by Thanksgiving, November 27, Caliber.Az reports.

The phone call between Zelenskyy and Vance ended half an hour ago” sources in the Presidential Office said, without providing further details.

The 28-point US plan would require Ukraine to relinquish additional territory in the east, pledge never to join NATO and accept full amnesty for Russians accused of war crimes. Trump argued that Ukraine was already on track to lose that territory “in a short period of time” and said he wants “to stop the bloodbath.”

Russia has not secured the large-scale territorial gains necessary to take the land outlined in the plan, but US officials maintain Ukraine’s battlefield position is set to deteriorate. In exchange for concessions, the proposal offers Kyiv an unprecedented US-European security guarantee modeled on NATO’s Article 5, committing allies to treat an attack on Ukraine as an attack on the entire “transatlantic community.”

By Sabina  Mammadli