Zelensky thanked Witkoff and Kushner for the lack of strikes on Kiev during their visit: "You worked better today than the Patriot systems. Thank you, come more often." He acknowledged the war will likely continue into winter and said Ukraine is counting on a winter support package from the US, with expanded Patriot missile production and additional systems.
On Donbass, Zelensky pushed back on ceding the region for a peace deal: "The Donbass question isn't just about Donbass. Between us, I think it's the question of this whole war. We've gotten stronger on the battlefield in the east, where the enemy is active, where they've increased troop numbers, and where I believe Russia will run a mobilization specifically for this direction after their elections. A lot of geopolitical questions are really being decided there."
Axios reports, citing sources, that Witkoff and Kushner told Zelensky they want a breakthrough before winter and are working with Moscow and Kiev on an "updated" settlement proposal. Witkoff said a meeting between Russian, American, and Ukrainian representatives will be announced soon, calling his Moscow talks with Putin "constructive and substantive" — his eighth visit there, each time treated respectfully, he said. Kushner said the US is building a "peace package" and hopes to restart talks in a trilateral format with Russia, Ukraine, and the US.
Separately, Ukrainian outlet Glavcom published what it says are details of a "peace plan" Trump's envoys may have brought to Moscow and Kiev, and unconfirmed by any party: a full ceasefire, Ukrainian territorial concessions, AFU withdrawal from Donbass and part of Zaporozhye (with a possible UN contingent deployed there), a referendum and elections, constitutional changes, a renunciation of retaking Russian-controlled territory by force, non-bloc status for Ukraine with no NATO membership, limits on AFU troop numbers, language-policy provisions, and a full peace treaty signed by a new Ukrainian government, later formalized through the UN.
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