Ukraine calls for Trump-Zelensky meeting in US this week

乌克兰呼吁本周在美国举行特朗普-泽连斯基会晤

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2025-11-26

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Ukraine's President Zelensky says he's ready to meet President Trump to discuss the most sensitive points of US- drafted peace agreement with Russia. But he said his country's European allies should also join the meeting. Mr Zelensky was addressing a gathering of the Coalition of the Willing - a group of nations which supports Kyiv. We will hear from an Ukrainian MP who is in London to meet with British lawmakers. Also in the programme: Scientists in the UK have established that the brain ages through five distinct stages over its lifetime; and Los Angeles' most famous modernist-styled house goes on sale for the first time. (Picture: Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a Russian strike on a nine-storey residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine on 25 November, 2025. Credit: MAXYM MARUSENKO/EPA/Shutterstock)
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  • It's been a day big on diplomatic activity,

  • but light on clarity as far as the future of the war in Ukraine is concerned.

  • President Zelensky has indicated that he's ready to meet President Trump to discuss what is seen as the most sensitive points of the U.S.

  • Drafted Peace Agreement.

  • But he wants his European allies there too,

  • something he told a group of European leaders known collectively as the Coalition of the Willing.

  • Ukraine has made amendments to a framework for peace,

  • but it's not clear if Russia will accept those revisions.

  • And the White House has referred to what it called a delicate details,

  • which still have to be thrashed out with Moscow.

  • President Trump, though, has said he's sending his envoy, Steve Witkoff,

  • to meet Putin in Moscow,

  • in the hope of finalising the peace plan for Ukraine that Washington drafted.

  • He says that's now been fine-tuned more on that in a moment.

  • But all of this diplomatic effort can't disguise the impact the war continues to have on ordinary Ukrainians.

  • There was another large-scale drone and missile attack overnight.

  • James Waterhouse has sent this report from Kyiv.