Ukraine has begun a new round of high-level consultations in Geneva, Switzerland, aimed at advancing what Kyiv calls a “sustainable and just peace,” Presidential Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak said on Sunday.
In a statement posted on X, Yermak confirmed that the Ukrainian delegation appointed by President Volodymyr Zelensky has held its first meetings with national security advisors from the United Kingdom, France and Germany — Jonathan Powell, Emmanuel Bonne and Günter Sautter.
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“We are set on a very constructive path,” Yermak wrote, adding that the next session will be held with the US delegation.
Kyiv Post has learned from diplomatic sources that the meeting between the US and Ukrainian delegations will take place at the US mission in Geneva.
According to Yermak, the Ukrainian team is preparing for a full day of talks in multiple formats, continuing efforts to coordinate with Western allies amid growing international debate around proposed frameworks for ending the war.
The Geneva consultations follow weeks of intensified diplomatic activity, as Kyiv seeks firm security guarantees and alignment from partners while pushing back against pressure to accept externally drafted peace proposals.
The US-backed proposal would require Ukraine to accept Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk as effectively under Russian control, hold snap elections within 100 days, cut the size of its armed forces, and abandon its NATO bid – all while sanctions on Moscow are gradually lifted.
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The Trump administration has given Ukraine a Thanksgiving ultimatum – agree to the framework by Thursday or face consequences that have not been spelled out but have been repeatedly hinted at.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said, “will have to come to terms” with a 28-point “peace” plan that critics across Washington and Kyiv say bears Moscow’s fingerprints.
“Thursday is it – we think an appropriate time,” he said, speaking at the Oval Office on Friday
US officials have privately warned Kyiv that refusing to engage could affect military and intelligence support.
Zelensky, following an hour-long phone conversation with US Vice President JD Vance and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll on Friday, said that Kyiv would work “together with America and Europe” to strike a peace deal.
In a national address, he warned that the country is entering “one of the most difficult moments” of the war and vowed to present alternative terms to Washington.
Zelensky and several European leaders are now racing to revise key elements of a US peace proposal ahead of a Nov. 27 deadline, hoping to make the plan more acceptable to Kyiv.
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