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He wrote on Truth Social:
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I just had a good and very productive telephone call with President Putin of Russia prior to my meeting, at 1:00 P.M. today, with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.
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Trump added that the meeting with the Ukrainian president will take place in the main dining room of Mar-a-Lago, adding: “Press is invited.”
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Meanwhile, in a TASS interview published on Sunday, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov called Europe the “main obstacle to peace” in Ukraine.
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Lavrov claimed to the state-run news agency that the EU is “making no secret of the fact that they are getting ready to fight it out with Russia on the battlefield”.
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“We see that Zelenskyy’s regime and his European curators are not ready to engage in constructive talks,” he said, adding that the Kremlin “appreciates efforts by President of the United States Donald Trump and his team to achieve a peace settlement”.
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Lavrov added that if European troops were to be stationed in Ukraine “our Armed Forces would view them as a legitimate target”.
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Zelenskyy and Trump will hold a phone call with European leaders during their meeting in Florida, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian president has just been quoted as having said by the Reuters news agency.
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We have seen videos on social media showing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arriving at Miami’s airport ahead of his high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss the latest iteration of a 20-point peace plan.
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Zelenskyy has said he plans to discuss the fate of eastern Ukraine’s contested Donbas region during the meeting at Trump’s Florida residence, as well as the future of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, among other topics (see this post for more details).
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The Ukrainian leader is expected to meet Trump at about 1pm local time (1800 GMT). Stick with us as we continue to bring you the latest updates.
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Zelensky has arrived in Miami for a meeting with Trump. pic.twitter.com/ifvrExxAmC
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Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are to meet on Sunday to discuss a plan to end the war in Ukraine, amid continuing Russian attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, and scepticism that Moscow is willing to drop any of its maximalist demands.
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Vladimir Putin has demanded Ukraine hand over territory in the north of Donetsk oblast that his forces have been unable to capture. Zelenskyy’s counter-proposal envisages a demilitarised zone, with both sides withdrawing from the line of contact. The plan could be put to a referendum, providing Moscow first agrees to a ceasefire lasting from 60 to 90 days.
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But fundamental problems remain, including the issue of security guarantees to prevent Russia from attacking again. Trump has made no military commitment to defend Ukraine. The original 28-point US plan was presented in November after talks with Russia and in effect demanded Ukraine’s capitulation.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said ahead of his meeting with Donald Trump that Kyiv was doing everything to end its war with Russia but that ultimately securing peace would depend on its partners.
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“These are some of the most active diplomatic days of the year, and much can be resolved before the New Year, and we are doing everything for this, but whether there will be decisions depends on the partners,” he wrote on the Telegram app in comments before talks in Florida.
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He added that Ukraine’s partners should increase pressure on Moscow “so that the Russians feel the consequences of their own aggression”.
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Zelenskyy is due to meet Trump for the latest round of diplomatic talks in Florida at about 1:00pm (18:00 GMT).
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Their meeting at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago home will be the pair’s first in-person encounter since October.
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In the days before the meeting, Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s capital, using missiles and drones to attack Kyiv and try to increase the pressure on Zelenskyy.
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This morning, Ukrainians again woke up to reports of strikes in parts of the country, including in Kherson and Kharkiv.
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Russian troops took control of the settlements of Huliaipole, Myrnohrad, Artemivka, Rodynske and Vilne in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, and Stepnohirsk in the Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian defence ministry has said. We have not been able to independently verify this information yet. It is not the first time Moscow has proclaimed battlefield advances before talks.
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Russia currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory. During 2025, Russian advances amounted to 176 sq miles a month to the end of November, but at an estimated cost of 382,000 killed and injured.
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Ukraine’s National Police has accused Russian forces of launching attacks (guided aircraft and drones) on settlements in Kharkiv, Bogodukhov, Chuguiv and Kupiansk districts over the past day. The police said three civilians in the Kharkiv region were injured and said they are documenting the “consequences of war crimes” by Russia.
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On December 27, the Russian army struck the city of Chuguiv. The strike hit a residential high-rise building. A 66-year-old woman with an acute stress reaction sought medical help.
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The Russians used drones to strike the territory of the Zolochiv community. The strikes occurred in the village of Baranivka. Private houses, outbuildings, and power grids were damaged.
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A UAV hit a civilian car parked near a household in the village of Petrivka. There were no injuries.
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As a result of UAV strikes in the village of Velykyi Burluk, private houses were destroyed. A local resident was injured. A warehouse and a mill were also damaged.
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In the middle of the day, an enemy drone hit a civilian man walking from the village of Nova Kozacha. The 50-year-old wounded man was taken to a medical facility.
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We are restarting our live coverage of the war in Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to meet Donald Trump for the latest round of diplomatic talks in Florida at about 1:00pm (18:00 GMT).
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Their meeting at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago home will be the pair’s first in-person encounter since October, when Trump refused to grant Zelenskyy’s request for long-range Tomahawk missiles.
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The pair will discuss an updated version of a US-brokered plan to end the nearly-four year war, which Russia is yet to support.
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In the days before the meeting, Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s capital, using missiles and drones to attack Kyiv and try to increase the pressure on Zelenskyy.
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This morning, Ukrainians again woke up to reports of strikes in parts of the country, including in Kherson, where the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said one woman was injured after Russia launched “massive shelling”.
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Zelenskyy has said the priority is securing US security guarantees in order to protect Ukraine against future Russian aggression. The meeting will also likely focus heavily on management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and control of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, which has been a major sticking point so far in the negotiations.
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Moscow controls about 75% of the Donetsk region, and about 99% of the neighbouring Luhansk (known collectively as Donbas).
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At a closed-door meeting with Russia’s business elite last week, the Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly reiterated his demand that Ukraine hand over the entire eastern Donbas region as part of any peace deal.
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On the key question of the future of the region, Zelenskyy, who has so far rejected any territorial concessions, has suggested a “free economic zone” was a potential option.
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Moscow has repeatedly insisted that Ukraine must withdraw from all of the eastern Donbas region, even areas still under Kyiv’s control.
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Earlier we reported that the UK’s Keir Starmer had spoken with Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of the Ukrainian president’s meeting with Donald Trump.
We now have a readout from Downing Street of that call, in which Starmer reaffirmed the UK’s “unwavering support” for Ukraine, and both leaders welcomed ongoing diplomatic efforts and the US president’s continued engagement in securing peace.
Starmer also condemned Russia’s illegal invasion and its recent attack on Kyiv, Downing Street said.
While the details have yet to be disclosed, the call could be of potential concern to Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he waits to discuss the latest draft of the peace plan with Donald Trump, who over the last year has swayed back and forth between sympathising with Ukraine’s position and backing some of Putin’s most maximalist demands.
The meeting is due to begin in the next 30 minutes, so stick with us.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has also just confirmed to state news agencies that the call with Trump took place. He also didn’t provide further details.
Trump says he had ‘good and very productive’ call with Putin ahead of Zelesnkyy meeting
Ahead of his upcoming meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump said he had “a good and very productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin, without giving further details about the conversation.
He wrote on Truth Social:
I just had a good and very productive telephone call with President Putin of Russia prior to my meeting, at 1:00 P.M. today, with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.
Trump added that the meeting with the Ukrainian president will take place in the main dining room of Mar-a-Lago, adding: “Press is invited.”
Russian foreign minister says EU is ‘main obstacle to peace’ in Ukraine
Meanwhile, in a TASS interview published on Sunday, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov called Europe the “main obstacle to peace” in Ukraine.
Lavrov claimed to the state-run news agency that the EU is “making no secret of the fact that they are getting ready to fight it out with Russia on the battlefield”.
“We see that Zelenskyy’s regime and his European curators are not ready to engage in constructive talks,” he said, adding that the Kremlin “appreciates efforts by President of the United States Donald Trump and his team to achieve a peace settlement”.
Lavrov added that if European troops were to be stationed in Ukraine “our Armed Forces would view them as a legitimate target”.
While Volodymyr Zelenskyy is poised to push the latest draft of the 20-point peace plan for Ukraine when he sits down with Donald Trump later, key differences on the issue of ceding territory and security guarantees remain, per the Washington Post (paywall).
Last month the US backed a Russian demand that Ukrainian troops withdraw from the parts of the Donetsk region that Kyiv still controls and create a neutral demilitarized zone.
Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine will not give up any territory that Russia hasn’t captured, while Putin has demanded that Ukraine give up the entire Donbas region, moving little from his maximalist position.
The Ukrainian leader has instead proposed that both countries withdraw troops from the region for a neutral, demilitarized economic free zone with international troops and monitors to discourage future Russian attacks.
He also wants a security agreement with the US, a date for Ukraine’s admission to the EU and continued European military support, according to the WaPo.
Ukraine agreed to “many different compromises” in the plan, Zelenskyy said on Saturday. “If the whole world – Europe and America – is on our side, together we will stop Putin,” he said, adding that Ukraine needs military and financial support.
Trump, meanwhile, appeared lukewarm when he told Politico last week:
He doesn’t have anything until I approve it. So we’ll see what he’s got.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has held a “detailed” phone call with the UK prime minister Keir Starmer.
“We discussed preparations for the meeting with President Trump, as well as all our contacts with European partners,” the Ukrainian president wrote on X, saying he very much values the support from the UK.
“I informed him on the situation on the frontline and on the consequences of Russian strikes.”
The UK has been one of the leading donors to Ukraine, alongside the US and Germany, and has provided lots of military equipment, including tanks, air defence systems and artillery to help in the fight against Russia.
Zelenskyy and Trump will hold phone call with European leaders during Florida meeting, spokesperson says
Zelenskyy and Trump will hold a phone call with European leaders during their meeting in Florida, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian president has just been quoted as having said by the Reuters news agency.
Zelenskyy arrives in Miami ahead of meeting with Trump
We have seen videos on social media showing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arriving at Miami’s airport ahead of his high-stakes meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss the latest iteration of a 20-point peace plan.
Zelenskyy has said he plans to discuss the fate of eastern Ukraine’s contested Donbas region during the meeting at Trump’s Florida residence, as well as the future of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, among other topics (see this post for more details).
The Ukrainian leader is expected to meet Trump at about 1pm local time (1800 GMT). Stick with us as we continue to bring you the latest updates.
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Shaun Walker
Shaun Walker is the Guardian’s central and eastern Europe correspondent
Poland plans to complete a new set of anti-drone fortifications along its eastern borders within two years, a top defence official has said, after a massive incursion of unmanned Russian aerial combat vehicles into Polish airspace earlier this year.
“We expect to have the first capabilities of the system in roughly six months, perhaps even sooner. And the full system will take 24 months to complete,” the deputy defence minister, Cezary Tomczyk, told the Guardian in an interview in Warsaw.
Tomczyk said the new air defence systems would be integrated into an older line of protection constructed a decade ago. He said it would involve different layers of defence, including machine guns, cannon, missiles and drone-jamming systems.
“Some of this is for use only in extreme or war conditions. For example, these multi-barrel machine guns are difficult to use in peacetime, because everything that goes up must go down,” he said.
More than a dozen suspected Russian drones entered Polish airspace in September, in an incident that led to airport closures, fighter jets being scrambled, and damage to buildings on the ground as drones were shot down.
The foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, told the Guardian at the time that the attacks, which involved drones not carrying any ammunition, were an attempt by Russia “to test us without starting a war”. You can read the full story here:
My colleague Luke Harding has filed an interesting story about how a group of volunteers and neighbours are trying to save Kyiv’s architectural heritage amid waves of intense Russian attacks. Here is an extract from his piece:
Saving Kyiv’s architectural heritage seems strange at a time when Russian missiles and drones routinely fall on the capital, bringing death and destruction. Since the beginning of 2025, the Kremlin has dramatically stepped up its aerial raids. After each attack, workers board up shattered windows with plywood and try, where possible, to save residential buildings…
But Russia is only one threat. Preservation campaigners say they face unscrupulous developers who knock down listed buildings, corrupt officials and a governing class indifferent or hostile to the city’s rich architectural history. The harsh winter climate adds another burden.
“Kyiv is a city where money wins. We don’t have real political will to save our heritage,” said Dmytro Perov, an activist with the Heritage Kyiv group. He claimed the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, was friends with many of the developers who bulldoze important houses.
“Klitschko lives in an illegal building with a striptease club. His vision for the capital comes straight out of the 90s and Tony Soprano,” he alleged. Klitschko denies the claim, which he says comes from political rivals.
You can read the full story here:
Trump and Zelenskyy to hold talks amid heavy Russian airstrikes on Ukraine
Luke Harding
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are to meet on Sunday to discuss a plan to end the war in Ukraine, amid continuing Russian attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, and scepticism that Moscow is willing to drop any of its maximalist demands.
Vladimir Putin has demanded Ukraine hand over territory in the north of Donetsk oblast that his forces have been unable to capture. Zelenskyy’s counter-proposal envisages a demilitarised zone, with both sides withdrawing from the line of contact. The plan could be put to a referendum, providing Moscow first agrees to a ceasefire lasting from 60 to 90 days.
But fundamental problems remain, including the issue of security guarantees to prevent Russia from attacking again. Trump has made no military commitment to defend Ukraine. The original 28-point US plan was presented in November after talks with Russia and in effect demanded Ukraine’s capitulation.
Full story here:
The situation at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is stable and power is being supplied through one high-voltage line, the state RIA news agency cited a spokesman at the plant as saying.
An IAEA team is monitoring repairs near the plant after a local ceasefire brokered by the agency began. The work is expected to last several days.
Zelenskyy says ‘much can be resolved’ before the new year ahead of meeting with Trump
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said ahead of his meeting with Donald Trump that Kyiv was doing everything to end its war with Russia but that ultimately securing peace would depend on its partners.
“These are some of the most active diplomatic days of the year, and much can be resolved before the New Year, and we are doing everything for this, but whether there will be decisions depends on the partners,” he wrote on the Telegram app in comments before talks in Florida.
He added that Ukraine’s partners should increase pressure on Moscow “so that the Russians feel the consequences of their own aggression”.
Zelenskyy is due to meet Trump for the latest round of diplomatic talks in Florida at about 1:00pm (18:00 GMT).
Their meeting at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago home will be the pair’s first in-person encounter since October.
In the days before the meeting, Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s capital, using missiles and drones to attack Kyiv and try to increase the pressure on Zelenskyy.
This morning, Ukrainians again woke up to reports of strikes in parts of the country, including in Kherson and Kharkiv.
Russian forces struck an energy facility in the Poltava region, damaging technological equipment, Volodymyr Kogut, the head of the Poltava administration, wrote in a post on Telegram this morning, which detailed two recent Russian attacks. The post read:
Yesterday, during the day, the enemy attacked Poltava region twice. A missile was recorded falling in an open area in the Myrhorod district.
The Russians also struck an energy facility. Technological equipment was damaged. Energy workers are working to eliminate the consequences of the attack. Fortunately, in both cases, no people were injured.
We have not been able to independently verify this information yet.
