{"id":3464,"date":"2025-12-07T01:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:10:20","slug":"zelensky-had-a-difficult-call-with-us-negotiators-axios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/zelensky-had-a-difficult-call-with-us-negotiators-axios\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky had a \u2018difficult\u2019 call with US negotiators \u2013 Axios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The sides reportedly discussed territorial issues and security guarantees for Kiev<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"467\">Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has had a difficult discussion with US negotiators about Russia\u2019s territorial demands, Axios has reported, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"648\" data-end=\"782\">Zelensky spoke over the phone on Saturday with US peace envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law and informal adviser Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"784\" data-end=\"1082\">According to Axios, the discussion about territory was <em>\u201cdifficult,\u201d<\/em> as Kiev has rejected Russia\u2019s key demand to withdraw troops from parts of the Donbass that Ukraine continues to occupy. The US has been <em>\u201ctrying to develop new ideas to bridge the issue,\u201d<\/em> the publication cited its source as saying.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1084\" data-end=\"1181\">The sides made <em>\u201csignificant progress and neared agreement\u201d<\/em> on US security guarantees for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69333c6885f54074742e9f20.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/629092-poland-ukraine-diplomatic-row\/\">Warsaw needles Zelensky over his \u2018crown\u2019 as diplomatic tensions rise<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1183\" data-end=\"1360\">Zelensky described the call on X as <em>\u201clong and substantive,\u201d<\/em> adding that Ukraine was <em>\u201cdetermined to keep working in good faith with the American side to genuinely achieve peace.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1521\">Trump previously hinted that Ukraine may have to make territorial concessions to Russia, arguing that Moscow would eventually take full control of the Donbass.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1523\" data-end=\"1751\">Witkoff and Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Tuesday. Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said that although the sides had disagreements, the conversation was <em>\u201cvery useful and constructive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1753\" data-end=\"2064\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">During his trip to India on Thursday, Putin told local media that Russia would push Ukrainian troops out of Donbass by force if they refused to withdraw.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1753\" data-end=\"2064\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">He previously said that in order to achieve a lasting peace, Ukraine must recognize Russia\u2019s new borders and drop its bid to join NATO in favor of permanent neutrality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sides reportedly discussed territorial issues and security guarantees for Kiev Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has had a difficult discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}