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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used a welcome address to the Coalition of the Willing on November 25 to thank partner countries for their support and urge them to maintain full-scale security assistance to Kyiv, while advancing a Geneva-developed framework for future steps, as outlined in his speech on November 25.
Addressing French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, European Council President António Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and other coalition leaders, Zelenskyy thanked them “for moving forward together and staying coordinated and united.”
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He stated there were “no separate issues” when it came to security, arguing that “security decisions about Ukraine must include Ukraine” and that decisions about Europe “must include Europe,” adding that “people should decide their own future,” which he said distinguished democratic states from “regimes like the one in Moscow.”
Zelenskyy told the coalition that “we have a good result from Geneva—from the meetings and talks that took place there,” saying Ukraine now had “the framework developed by our teams in Geneva,” which “is on the table.”
Zelenskyy urged partner nations to “keep working at 100%” by sustaining and strengthening security aid to Kyiv, calling for continued deliveries of weapons and air defense systems, firm sanctions pressure on Russia, and the use of frozen Russian assets to bolster Ukraine’s protection as part of a coordinated effort by the Coalition of the Willing.
He also added that he was “ready to meet with President Trump—there are sensitive points to discuss, we have them still, and we think that the presence of European leaders could be helpful,” proposing that “some key issues” be discussed “in a closed format.”
At the same time, Zelenskyy warned that “Russia’s war against us is not in the past, it’s happening every single day,” noting that “last night, there was yet another massive attack on our country.”
He said Ukraine could not “relax or forget that Ukraine still needs defense support, security support, support for our resilience—every day,” and argued that as long as Russia had not taken “real steps toward demobilization real steps to shut down its war machine—steps that would clearly show that Russia is serious about ending this war of aggression,” partners did “not have the right to stop working to support Ukraine, to support our people, and to support our collective security” or to “demobilize ourselves.”
Zelenskyy called on coalition members to “protect lives, strengthen air defense, and hold the front line, keep sanctions against Russia, finally channel frozen Russian assets to bolster Ukraine protection, and work out, finally, the doable framework for the deployment of the Reassurance Force Ukraine of the Coalition of the Willing by signing off a relevant Memorandum of Understanding.”
He concluded by urging the partners to maintain their efforts, saying, “Please, let us keep working at 100%—for security, as we have before. And thank you so much.”
Earlier, it was reported that the United States shortened its proposed peace plan for Ukraine from 28 to 19 points after negotiations in Geneva, with a joint US–Ukraine statement highlighting “meaningful progress” while leaving it unspecified which provisions were cut.
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