Trump, Zelenskyy praise progress in Ukraine peace talks

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Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump have praised progress made during peace talks at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Key issues, including security guarantees and territorial concessions, remain.

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00:00The Trump-Zelensky meeting here at Mar-a-Lago hasn't brought any breakthrough.

00:04But how close are we to an actual peace in Ukraine after it?

00:08Not 100%, but 90% or 95%.

00:11What number are we at right now?

00:14Well, I think we're, look, you know, you can say 95%, but I don't like to say percentages.

00:19I just think we're doing very well.

00:20We're very, we could be very close.

00:23There are one or two very thorny issues, very tough issues.

00:26But I think we're doing very well.

00:27We've made a lot of progress today, but really we've made it over the last month.

00:31The thorniest issue here is...

00:33The land you're talking about.

00:35Some of that land has been taken.

00:37Some of that land is maybe up for grabs,

00:40but it may be taken over the next period of a number of months.

00:45This is the Donbass President Trump is talking about.

00:47Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine pulls all of its troops out of its own region.

00:52President Zelensky says only the Ukrainian people can decide that through a national referendum.

00:58Of course, our society has to choose and has to vote because it's their land.

01:03The land not of one person.

01:06It's the land of our nation.

01:08President Trump then offered unusually generous praise for President Zelensky.

01:12Let me tell you, they have been very brave.

01:14They fought very hard and continue to fight very hard.

01:18And suddenly he switched to this.

01:21Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed.

01:23Once, it sounds a little strange, but I was explaining to the president.

01:28But the recent Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine suggest otherwise.

01:32Now President Trump is expected to host President Zelensky again

01:35with European leaders at the White House between January 12th and 18th, according to our sources.

01:40He gives it a few weeks to finalize the peace agreement.

01:43They keep fighting and they keep dying.

01:47No good.

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