Zelenskiy said European allies were ready to share their reactions to Trump’s peace plan with the United States on Tuesday.
Published December 9, 2025
Ukraine’s European allies have agreed to step up support for the country and put further economic pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin. Downing Street says Moscow’s “savage” war is at a “critical moment”.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s statement came as both Ukraine and Russia continue to refine the 28-point plan laid out by US President Donald Trump last month to end the war, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying he would share Ukraine’s version of the 20-point plan on Tuesday.
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“The mood of the Americans, in principle, is to try to find a compromise,” Zelensky told reporters in London on Monday after talks with the leaders of France, Germany and Britain. “Of course, there are complex issues related to territory and no compromise has been found yet.”
The London meeting marked the beginning of a busy two-day diplomatic campaign for Zelensky, as European allies scramble to show support for Ukraine’s leader as he continues to face public criticism from the U.S. president.
President Trump on Sunday said he was “disappointed” in Zelenskiy and accused him of not reading the latest U.S.-backed proposal.
After the meeting in London, President Zelensky said that the leaders of Finland, Italy, Poland, Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Turkiye also took part in the call and expressed their support.
He then traveled to Brussels to meet with European Union and NATO leaders before heading to Italy to meet with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin said the recent U.S. national security strategy laid out by the White House is broadly consistent with Russia’s position. A new US document criticizes European leaders, is skeptical of NATO expansion, supports far-right parties on the continent and calls for better and more stable relations with Russia.
“The adjustments we are seeing are in many ways consistent with our vision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state television reporter Pavel Zarubin on Sunday.
Peskov also said it was encouraging that the new strategy promised to end “the perception of the NATO military alliance as a permanently expanding alliance.”
Meanwhile, Russian forces have continued deadly attacks across Ukraine since Sunday, killing at least four civilians in Ukraine’s Donetsk region and five civilians in Ukraine’s Kharkov region.
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on Monday that Russian troops had captured the village of Novodaniryvka in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya region and the village of Chervonne in Donetsk region, the state-run TASS news agency reported.
The Ukrainian monitoring site Deep State reported that Russian troops had advanced near the besieged town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, and said that Russian forces had captured Lisivka, Suvhi Yar, Khnatyvka, Ri and Novopavlivka, and advanced on the towns of Siversk and Milnohrad.
