Name: U.S., Ukraine reach consensus on some key issues to end war with Russia
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Description: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country and the United States have reached a consensus on several critical issues aimed at bringing an end to the conflict with Russia — but sensitivities around territorial control in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland and the management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant remain unresolved.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country and the United States have reached a consensus on several critical issues aimed at bringing an end to the conflict with Russia — but sensitivities around territorial control in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland and the management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant remain unresolved.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that Ukraine and the United States have agreed on several important aspects of a new 20-point peace plan to end the conflict with Russia. The plan, developed during meetings in Miami, differs from a previous 28-point proposal that included demands for Ukraine to cede territory. 

Key unresolved issues include the status of disputed regions such as Donbass, Luhansk, and Donetsk, as well as control of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. The plan also calls for European involvement and security guarantees, but does not include a demand for Ukraine's NATO membership. Russian officials have offered limited public reaction, and Zelensky has expressed interest in meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump as discussions continue.

U.S., Ukraine reach consensus on some key issues to end war with Russia

Another explosion has gone off in Moscow, this time killing three people. Two of those killed were trafficked police officers. Investigators say the officers were approaching a suspicious individual when an explosive was detonated. Today's attack happened near the location of a car bomb that killed a high-ranking general on Monday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is giving details on an updated peace plan for ending the war with Russia. He says his country and the United States have reached a consensus on several critical issues, but other more sensitive issues remain unresolved. John Northcott is joining us now from London. John, this is major news. Meetings in Miami have been taking place for over a week now. What do we have news of from Zelensky? Well, Diana, let's just try to keep track of the various peace proposals that we have seen. This is a 20-point plan. It stands in stark contrast to the 28-point plan. This current plan hammered out between, as you say, Ukrainian and American officials. That previous 28-point plan was hammered out between American and Russian officials, and some commented at the time that it could have been written by Vladimir Putin himself in terms of the demands, including even asking for Ukraine to give up territory that it currently controls. This 20-point plan released by Zelensky to a meeting of journalists, and saying that, amongst other things, this would involve Ukraine being able to maintain its 800,000-person army, as well as Europe being involved in this and calling for Russia to be involved in this, but Europe helping to provide security guarantees as well in this, including some withdrawals. And they talk about a free economic zone, areas that perhaps were disputed, but were then controlled by other powers that would allow at least some kind of normal life to return to this. So, this 20-point plan still would have to be eventually ratified by the Ukrainian people. But at this point, news, as you say, for sure, and perhaps progress towards some kind of peace. You're absolutely right, John. Of course, there's been so many iterations of this peace plan that it's probably too soon to be very optimistic about it. Talk to me a little bit about some of the outstanding issues. We know that Ukraine's NATO membership, land concessions. What are some of the ones that are outstanding still? Yeah, exactly. So, no demand for that NATO membership, which is something that Ukraine has often wanted. But we're talking about the disputed regions, Donbass, Luhansk and Donetsk. No word on that as yet. And then there's the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, currently under Russian control. Who would eventually control that? Again, that very much a question mark at this point. We can tell you that there has been some, although not great, reaction from the Russian side in all of this. The spokesperson for Vladimir Putin saying simply that, and I'll quote what he said in translation. He noted that the key aspects of Russia's position are well known to their U.S. colleagues, but those are the only real details we have in terms of Russian reaction. And we can tell you that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, says that he would like to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump as this process, as many hope it will, moves forward. Thank you so much for that, John. That's CBC's John Northcott in London.

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