Trump-Zelenskyy meeting live updates: US President Donald Trump said that he held “a good and very productive telephone call” with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his scheduled meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida on Sunday. It is Zelenskyy’s third visit to meet President Trump this year and the two leaders would try to close out a peace agreement that could potentially end the nearly four year old conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Trump and Zelenskyy are meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, where the US president is spending the holidays.

Russia claims more battlefield advances: Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said that he wants all the four areas which have been captured by the Russian forces along with the Crimean Peninsula which was illegally annexed in 2014, to be recognised as Russian territory. Putin also said that Kyiv must withdraw from some of the areas in eastern Ukraine which Moscow’s forces haven’t captured, though Ukraine has rejected all these demands.

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Sticking points over territory: US and Ukraine have agreed on many issues and providing an update on the 20-point peace plan sponsored by the Trump administration, Zelenskyy on Friday had said that the plan was 90% finished. Kyiv has said to freeze the map at the current battle lines, but Moscow has insisted on getting all of Donbas. The United States, which is looking for a compromise, has proposed a free economic zone if Ukraine leaves the area.

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