US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff will meet with Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders in Berlin this weekend to discuss a deal on Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing its sources.
Sources specified that French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will also attend the meeting.
According to the newspaper, US President Donald Trump's phone call with European leaders on Wednesday was tense.
Sources present at the conversation explained that Trump told his German, French and British counterparts that they must put pressure on Zelensky to accept the terms of the US-proposed peace plan.
The prospects for an agreement to resolve the Ukrainian conflict will become clear soon. said US President Donald Trump during a meeting with members of the 1980 US men's hockey team, broadcast live on the White House YouTube channel.
The head of state did not disclose details of the possible agreement, but expressed hope for a positive outcome of the negotiation process.
„We are trying to figure out if we can reach an agreement now. We will see. I think we will find out soon“, Trump said.
The US president noted that significant progress has been made in resolving the conflict in Ukraine.
Last week, Vladimir Putin received Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in the Kremlin. The parties discussed the essence of the US peace initiative for about five hours, but a compromise has not yet been reached.
As the Russian leader later stated, Washington divided the 27 points of the original plan into four packages and offered to discuss them separately. He specified that he had reviewed almost every one of them, “there were issues that Moscow did not agree with“.
Zelensky, for his part, traveled to Britain on Monday, where he discussed the American proposal with Starmer, Macron and Merz. According to Ukrainian media, after the meeting, he again refused to make concessions on the territorial issue.
According to Axios, the day before, Kiev had handed over to Washington a response to the latest American proposals for a Ukrainian settlement.