Ukraine War: Kyiv Drone Attack & Trump Peace Plan Latest

Territory remains the main diplomatic stumbling block, though Zelensky told journalists in Kyiv on Friday that a 20-point draft document – the cornerstone of a US push to clinch a peace deal – is 90% complete.

He said a security guarantee agreement between Ukraine and the US was almost ready – a critical element after guarantees in earlier post-Soviet years proved meaningless.

“A lot can be decided before the New Year,” Zelensky posted on social media.

Trump said the United States was the driving force behind the process.

“He doesn’t have anything until I approve it,” Trump told Politico. “So we’ll see what he’s got.”

Before their meeting, Zelensky will have a call on Saturday with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and other European leaders, a Commission spokesperson said.

Zelensky told Axios the US had offered a 15-year deal on security guarantees, subject to renewal, but Kyiv wanted a longer agreement with legally binding provisions to guard against further Russian aggression.

Trump said he believed Sunday’s meeting would go well. He also said he expected to speak with Putin “soon, as much as I want.”

Talks on Ukraine should progress towards a “just and lasting peace”, Sir Keir Starmer has told European leaders, as Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to meet US president Donald Trump.

In a call with German and French leaders on Friday, the Prime Minister said it remained “a crucial moment for Ukraine and security across the Euro-Atlantic region” as they emphasised their “unwavering commitment” to Ukraine.

A Downing Street spokesperson said the leaders “reiterated their unshakeable commitment for a just and lasting peace for Ukraine and the importance that talks continue to progress towards this in the coming days”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday he was on his way to the US for talks with president Donald Trump in Florida, where he said he hoped to find a compromise over a peace framework to end Russia’s war.

In audio messages sent to reporters, Zelensky said security guarantees offered by Washington were key to ensuring peace, and that the extent of those guarantees depended on what Trump was willing to offer.

Ahead of his meeting with US president Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine has its “red lines” but is sure compromise can be found as he aims to discuss security guarantees and territorial issues in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk.

He continued that Ukraine would need more air defence missiles as Russia continues to bombard the country with missiles and drones – the latest attack involving almost 500 drones and 40 missiles, just days after a 600-strong drone and missile attack from Moscow.

He added Ukraine could not have a referendum under the current security conditions and strong security guarantees were needed to facilitate democratic process.

At least 10 residential buildings were damaged in the attack on Ukraine, said interior minister Ihor Klymenko, and people are being evacuated from under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

Two children were among those injured in the attack, which local officials said affected seven locations across the city of Kyiv.

Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is on a plane to the US to meet with Donald Trump.

He will stop in Canada to meet close ally prime minister Mark Carney.

Zelensky will discuss security guarantees and territorial issues in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions in an effort to end the war.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, is one of the main sticking points in US president Donald Trump’s peace plan to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine. The issue is one of 20 points laid out by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a framework peace proposal.

The plant is located in Enerhodar on the banks of the Dnipro River and the Kakhovka Reservoir, 550 km (342 miles) southeast of the capital Kyiv.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has six Soviet-designed reactors. They were all built in the 1980s, although the sixth only came online in the mid-1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It has a total capacity of 5.7 gigawatts, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) database.

Four of the six reactors no longer use Russian nuclear fuel, having switched to fuel produced by then-US nuclear equipment supplier Westinghouse.

After Russia took control of the station, it shut down five of its six reactors and the last reactor ceased to produce electricity in September 2022. Rosatom said in 2025 that it was ready to return the U.S. fuel to the United States.

According to the Russian management of the plant, all six reactors are in “cold shutdown.”

Both Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of striking the nuclear plant and of severing power lines to the plant.

The plant’s equipment is powered by electricity supplied from Ukraine. Over the past four years these supplies have been interrupted at least eleven times due to breaks in power lines, forcing the plant to switch to emergency diesel generators.

Emergency generators on site can supply electricity to keep the reactors cool if external power lines are cut.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi says that fighting a war around a nuclear plant has put nuclear safety and security in constant jeopardy.