Zelensky and Trump hold peace plan talks in Florida
Newshour
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4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Zelensky and Trump hold peace plan talks in Florida. We hear reaction from Kyiv and from our correspondent in Washington.
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(Photo: President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy upon his arrival for meetings at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 28, 2025. Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.6 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Krupa Padi. Very good to have you with us. |
| 0:18.9 | You'd be forgiven for thinking that we've been here many times before this year. |
| 0:23.4 | And that is because to some extent we have yet more talks are taking place about how to break that deadlock between Ukraine and Russia after nearly four years of war. |
| 0:33.3 | We are at the end of the year. And it seems leaders are ready for that final push. |
| 0:39.9 | As I speak, the latest talks are underway in Florida between Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky |
| 0:45.3 | and US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. |
| 0:49.7 | And they're expected to discuss an updated version of a US-bro. broker 20-point peace plan which Moscow has yet to |
| 0:56.8 | support. More on what that may include in a moment. But there are people in Kiev who have |
| 1:02.7 | mixed feelings about the outcome of these talks. |
| 1:07.2 | I don't think this can happen because we've seen previous negotiations and agreements. |
| 1:12.2 | And then a day or two ago there was an attack again. |
| 1:14.7 | I think Russia is going to drag it out as much as it can. |
| 1:20.5 | Peace. I want peace. I only want peace and nothing else. |
| 1:26.7 | I want for this to be over, but this is what our side wishes for. We don't have any leverage in this |
| 1:32.5 | situation. So I want that everyone stays healthy, strong and patient now. President Trump has expressed |
| 1:40.6 | optimism about reaching a deal before they went into that meeting. |
| 1:45.2 | It's going to go very quickly. I think we're in final stages of talking and we're going to |
| 1:50.4 | see otherwise it's going to go on for a long time. It'll either end but it's going to go on for a |
| 1:56.0 | long time and millions of additional people are going to be killed. Millions. |
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