President Donald Trump is expected to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday as both sides push to finalize a U.S.-backed peace plan, Ukrainian officials said. The planned meeting signals significant progress in negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine,
Trump has previously said he would only meet Zelensky if a deal was close. Zelensky confirmed he would meet Trump on Sunday.
He said the U.S. proposal was “90%” agreed upon, but stopped short of saying anything would be signed. “We are not losing a single day,” Zelensky wrote on X after receiving a briefing from his chief negotiator, Rustem Umerov.
“We have agreed on a meeting at the highest level — with President Trump in the near future,” he added. “A lot can be decided before the New Year.”
The meeting follows a weekend of talks in Florida between Trump advisers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and senior negotiators from both Russia and Ukraine. Those discussions were part of a series of meetings held over the past two months.
A senior U.S. official described the talks with Umerov and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev as “positive and constructive.”
“We’ve gone as far as possible with the Russians and the Ukrainians,” the official said.
“We’ve made more progress in the last two weeks than the last year,” the official added. “We want to push the ball into the goal. We’re heading in the right direction.”