“Good evening Florida!” – Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Serhiy Kyslytsa wrote on the
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As reported by the White House, The meeting of the presidents of the United States and Ukraine at Donald Trump's residence in Florida will take place two hours earlier than planned, i.e. at 13 local time (19 Polish time).
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Earlier, President Zelensky presented a new, 20-point peace plan proposal developed by the US, which is the result of consultations with the parties to the conflict. The plan includes, among others: confirmation of Ukraine's sovereignty, freezing the conflict on the current front line, development package and actions for the reconstruction of Ukraine, accelerating the process of concluding a free trade agreement between Ukraine and the USA and the authorities in Kiev holding elections as soon as possible.
Volodymyr Zelensky will visit the “winter White House” for the first time
The Sunday meeting of the presidents of the United States and Ukraine will take place in… estate and Donald Trump's private club, Mar-a-Lago. Since taking power, Trump has referred to the place as his “winter White House” and has repeatedly welcomed state leaders there, despite security concerns.
The property, owned by Trump since 1985, is located in the South Florida resort of West Palm Beach. It gets its name — Spanish for “sea to lake” — from its location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Lake Worth Lagoon. The villa, built in the Spanish colonial style, is almost 100 years old. It was built there in the 1920s by the then richest woman in America, Marjorie Merriweather Post, daughter of CW Post, the founder of General Foods, known for the production of breakfast cereals.
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Although the villa was initially intended to serve as Post's winter residence, it was she who first thought of Mar-a-Lago as a potential winter residence for US presidents. For this purpose, the property was donated to the state-run National Park Service after her death in 1973. Due to maintenance costs, it did not meet this goal, and Congress returned the estate to the Post foundation in 1980. Five years later, it was bought by Donald Trump, then a millionaire playboy. He also forced the sale of the villa at a price lower than the requested price by purchasing a plot of land right next to Mar-a-Lago and threatening to build a house there that would block the view of the Atlantic Ocean.
After taking over the estate, Trump renovated it, maintaining its original style and building, among others: ballroom. In 1995, he transformed the estate into a private club with guest rooms and a spa, to which only invited guests have access. It still serves this function today: donor events are regularly held there. The nature of the place as a club and residence of the head of state was controversial from the beginning for security reasons.
The meetings between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky were full of ups and downs
Sunday's meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky will be their ninth face-to-face conversation and seventh since Trump assumed the presidency for a second time. The meetings so far have been difficult for the Ukrainian president, and any diplomatic successes he has achieved have been short-lived.
The first one took place on September 25, 2019 in New York on the sidelines of the annual speeches of world leaders at the UN General Assembly session. Trump and Zelensky — who had long sought the opportunity to meet Trump at the White House — met in the middle of the scandal that ended with Trump's first impeachment. In their earlier phone call, Trump, who blocked the military aid package for Ukraine, suggested he would unblock it and sell Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine if Zelensky announced an investigation into his rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter. During a meeting in New York, Zelensky told reporters that the conversation was “normal” and that he did not feel blackmailed. Trump later repeatedly praised the Ukrainian president's attitude, noting that he could have “showed off” at the time, but he didn't.
The real crisis in the presidents' relations occurred during their first meeting in the White House, on February 28, 2025. The meeting took place against the background of tense negotiations regarding access to Ukrainian minerals, which in Trump's vision were to compensate for the expenditure on previous support for Ukraine. In the days before the meeting, the American president also called Zelensky a “dictator”, demanded that he organize elections during the war and blamed him for bringing Russian aggression to Ukraine.
Since then, the two leaders' contacts have been more friendly. Trump began to criticize Putin and threaten him with sanctions, although he ultimately did so much later. On June 25, Zelensky and Trump met again during the NATO summit in The Hague, when the US president promised help in bringing 17 Patriot systems to Ukraine, a promise he has not fulfilled to this day.
Despite this, subsequent conversations had a more positive tone. On August 18, after meeting with Putin in Alaska, Trump met with Zelensky and the leaders of European countries at the White House, which turned out to be the beginning of long and still unresolved negotiations on security guarantees for Ukraine. On September 24, during a meeting with Zelensky in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Trump surprised everyone by significantly tightening his stance towards Russia and declaring that Ukraine was able to regain all the territories seized by Russia, although he later withdrew this rhetoric.
The last meeting of the two leaders took place on October 17, against the background of Trump's repeated threats against Russia regarding the delivery of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. Despite the positive tone of the talks, they did not bring any specific result, because Trump made it clear that he would not send these missiles to Ukraine. He made this decision after a conversation with Putin on the eve of the meeting, which – as it later turned out – was made as a result of the efforts of Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff.
Since then, Trump, who imposed sanctions on Russia after his canceled meeting with Putin in Budapest, has repeatedly expressed both optimism and frustration with the attitude of the Ukrainian authorities in the peace negotiations. He announced that he would meet with Zelensky or Putin again only when there is a chance to sign a peace agreement, or when it is very close. We will find out on Sunday whether this will actually be the case.
