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President Volodymyr Zelensky is prepared to give up NATO membership if there are security guarantees.
US envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are also present at the major Berlin meeting on the war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US envoys arrived in Berlin on Sunday for another round of talks aimed at negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner were seen entering a hotel in central Berlin on Sunday afternoon.
On the eve of new talks on the US peace plan, President Zelensky did not insist that Ukraine join NATO. When asked by reporters, he explained that this desire was not supported by all allied states. As a compromise, he would consider comparable security guarantees from the EU and the US.
He told reporters on Sunday that any plan would include concessions, but Ukraine needed security guarantees from the US and Europe, similar to NATO’s Article 5 on mutual assistance. “We are talking about bilateral security guarantees between Ukraine and the US — namely guarantees similar to Article 5, as well as security guarantees from our European partners and other countries like Canada, Japan and others,” Zelensky said.
On Monday, Zelensky will be received by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and many European heads of state and government, as well as EU and NATO leaders who will join talks in the evening.
In audio messages in response to questions from reporters in a WhatsApp group chat on Sunday, Zelensky confirmed that he would meet separately with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and possibly other European heads of state and government later that evening. He also said he had not yet received a response from the United States on Ukraine's latest proposals for a peace plan.
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