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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will travel to London on Monday, 8 December, where he is expected to meet the leaders of three major European states, The Independent reports.
According to the outlet, Zelensky will hold talks with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The parties plan to discuss ongoing negotiations between US and Ukrainian officials over a peace plan “aimed at securing an agreement on post-war security guarantees for Ukraine.” The Independent notes that Starmer intends to use the meeting to reaffirm Britain’s support for Ukraine.
Update 17:40
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on X that he will travel to London on Monday to meet the leaders of Ukraine, the United Kingdom and Germany. He also said the talks will focus on the progress of US-mediated peace negotiations.
“We will continue these efforts with the Americans to provide Ukraine with security guarantees without which lasting and long-term peace is impossible. Europe’s security as a whole is also at stake in Ukraine,” Macron wrote.
He also condemned Russia’s latest combined attack on Ukraine.
US Peace Plan
In November, the United States presented Ukraine with a new 28-point proposal to end the war. Since its initial version was seen as favourable to Russia, US and Ukrainian negotiators have spent the past two weeks working to revise the document and make it more acceptable to Kyiv.
Washington is also consulting with Moscow. On 2 December, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and the US president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner visited Moscow, where they met Vladimir Putin to discuss the updated document.
Several days later, the Russian leader said he had rejected parts of the US proposal, noting that the plan now contains 27 points divided into four “packages.” Earlier reports suggested that US-Ukrainian negotiations had reduced the document to 20 points.
According to The New York Times, one of the “packages” concerns Ukrainian sovereignty, including limits on the size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and on the range of Ukrainian missiles. Other packages touch upon territorial concessions, US-Russia economic cooperation after the war, and broader European security issues.
Following talks in Moscow, the US delegation returned to Washington, where negotiations with Ukrainian representatives continued.
On Saturday, Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council secretary Rustem Umerov, who heads Kyiv’s negotiating team, said the two sides had discussed the results of the Moscow trip and potential steps toward ending the war.
He added that Washington and Kyiv had agreed on a framework for future security arrangements and discussed necessary deterrence measures to ensure a durable peace.
Both parties believe that progress on any agreement depends on Russia’s willingness to demonstrate real commitment to long-term peace — including steps toward de-escalation and an end to killings.
