The U.S. ​is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr ‌Zelenskiy told Reuters.

Zelenskiy warned ​that a withdrawal would compromise the security of both Ukraine and, by extension, Europe, by handing the region's strong defensive positions to Russia.

Zelensky thanked Trump for continuing US weapons supplies to Ukraine despite the conflict with Iran.

“The Middle East definitely has an impact on President Trump, and I think on his next steps. President Trump, unfortunately, in my opinion, still chooses a strategy of putting more pressure on the Ukrainian side. The Americans are prepared to finalise these guarantees at a high level once Ukraine is ​ready to withdraw from Donbas,” he said.