Volodymyr Zelensky, last-minute announcement on peace plan before meeting with Donald Trump in Florida

President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is due to hold another meeting with his American counterpart this weekend, claims that Ukraine and its partners have completed about 90 percent of the draft plan to end the war with Russia, including aspects related to security guarantees and the country's post-war reconstruction.

Speaking to reporters on WhatsApp, Zelenskiy confirmed he would meet with Donald Trump over the weekend and said Ukrainian representatives and international teams had finalized drafts of key documents, including on security guarantees and reconstruction plans, the Kyiv Post reported.

“To be honest, the 20-point plan we worked on is 90% ready. Our task is to bring it to 100%. Every meeting and every conversation brings us closer to the desired result,” the Ukrainian leader said.

Trump and Zelenskiy meet in Florida on Sunday

Ukrainian officials announced Friday that Donald Trump will host Volodymyr Zelensky in Florida at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday in an attempt to reach an agreement on the peace plan. Axios, the US publication that reported the information, wrote that the meeting was a sign of significant progress, given that the US president had said he would only meet with his Ukrainian counterpart again if he felt a deal was close.

Asked what documents are ready, Zelenski pointed to security guarantees and economic agreements. “There are several documents in this package and we hope to have the opportunity to discuss them all. The economic agreements are still in draft form and we need to clarify their direction,” he said.

The President of Ukraine was also asked if the talks in Florida are aimed at signing agreements or discussing issues related to territories.

“I don't know if everything can be completed,” he replied, noting that the Ukrainian side would bring up “all the issues on which we have questions and disagreements.”

Zelenski this week revealed the content of the agreement negotiated with the US and proposed to Russia, and the draft contains a major concession accepted by the Ukrainian side, regarding the willingness to withdraw its troops from the areas of the eastern Donetsk region still controlled by Kiev and to be transformed into a demilitarized zone. The condition is that Moscow withdraws its forces from an equivalent area in Donetsk.

Russia does not accept the compromise regarding Donbas

Russian daily Kommersant wrote on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not accept the compromise proposed by Kiev regarding the Donbas region and wants all the Ukrainian territories it declared annexed in 2022.

According to the newspaper, the Kremlin leader said that Russia may be willing to cede some of the Ukrainian territory controlled by its forces, but that it wants all of Donbas.

Putin discussed the details of the peace plan with Russian businessmen in a late meeting at the Kremlin on December 24, Kommersant also notes.

Russian estimates show that Moscow currently controls the entire Crimean peninsula, which it illegally annexed in 2014, about 90 percent of Donbas, 75 percent of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, but also areas of Kharkiv, Sumy, Mikolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, according to Russian estimates.

On December 19, the Russian president said that he believes that any peace deal must be based on the principles of the conditions he set in 2024: Ukraine's withdrawal from the Donbass, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions and Kiev's formal abandonment of its goal of joining NATO.