Trump Says He’s Unsure Zelensky Will Back U.S. 28‑Point Peace Proposal

President Donald Trump said Sunday he doubts Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to sign off on a U.S.-backed peace proposal aimed at ending the war between Ukraine and Russia.

Speaking to reporters before hosting the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., Trump said he was surprised Zelensky had not yet read the plan and expressed uncertainty about whether the Ukrainian leader would accept it. The comments follow controversy over an initial 28-point proposal put forward by the United States and subsequent talks involving U.S., Ukrainian and Russian representatives.

“I have to say that I’m a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn’t yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago,”

Trump said Sunday evening. “His people love it, but he hasn’t. Russia’s fine with it.”

It is not clear whether Trump was referring to the previously reported 28-point plan or to a separate new proposal under consideration.

On Friday, special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser on Middle East diplomacy, met in Florida with Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, and Ukrainian negotiator Andriy Hnatov to discuss the proposal and related ideas.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described those Florida meetings on the social platform X as “long and substantive.”

“I am grateful for a very focused, constructive discussion,”

Zelensky wrote. “We covered many aspects and went through key points that could ensure an end to the bloodshed and eliminate the threat of a new Russian full scale invasion, as well as the risk of Russia failing to honor its promises, as has happened repeatedly in the past.”

Zelensky added that Ukraine will “keep working in good faith with the American side to genuinely achieve peace,” thanking Trump for an intensive negotiating approach and stressing that detailed, team-based talks are necessary to produce workable measures for peace, security and reconstruction.

The evolving proposal and the informal U.S.-led contacts have drawn attention and scrutiny from international observers, with questions remaining about whether Moscow, Kyiv and other stakeholders can agree on enforceable guarantees and whether any plan can address both immediate ceasefire needs and long-term security concerns.