US EditionZelenskyy Delivers New Year’s Address Emphasizing Ukraine’s Resilience and Pursuit of Peace
Zelensky says remaining 10% of peace deal will decide Ukraine and Europe's future amid ongoing territorial disputes and security guarantee demands.
- This month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a New Year address from Kyiv, highlighting national resistance and pursuit of dignified peace over survival-threatening terms.
- Following recent talks, US officials and European security advisers held calls with Kyiv, and Zelenskyy pressed that intentions must become ratified security guarantees for any peace deal.
- In his address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared the peace agreement is 90 percent ready, adding that "signatures under weak agreements only fuel war."
- US special envoy Steve Witkoff said talks covered strengthening security guarantees and deconfliction mechanisms, while Zelenskyy thanked allied leaders and urged continued sanctions and pressure measures against Russia.
- With 1,407 days of war, the long-term stakes remain high as Moscow controls about 75% of Donetsk and some 99% of Luhansk, complicating peace talks.
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While Volodymyr Zelensky referred in his vows to a "90 per cent-ready" peace agreement, Moscow and Kiev accused each other of further deadly attacks in the early hours of 2026.
From the perspective of Ukrainian President Selenskyi, a peace agreement with Russia is already well advanced. Meanwhile, several European states are working to secure a peace. But for confidence it should be too early.
The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski , in his New Year's Eve speech on the occasion of the entry of the new year, has assured that the peace agreement with Russia "is 90% ready." However, he acknowledges in the recording hung on his X account that the remaining 10% "contains everything. That 10% will determine the fate of peace, the fate of Ukraine and Europe, of how people will live." Almost four years after the Russian President, Vladi…
In its 20-minute speech addressed to the nation, Zelenski said that Ukraine does not want peace "with any price", adding that "we want the end of the war, not the end of Ukraine". Article Zelenski says that the peace agreement is ready in proportion to 90% / Kuleba: The chances of the war ending in 2026 are "zero" appeared for the first time in Romania TV.
Ukrainian President Selenskyy once again stressed the need for a lasting peace agreement to end the war with Russia.
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