Ukraine may face a hard choice at a pivotal point in its almost four-year fight to defeat Russia's full-scale invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Ukrainians in a national address Friday, pledging to hold constructive discussions with Washington on a U.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky faces a fraught, historic choice in the form of a 28-point peace plan proposed by the United States and Russia: He can accept a deal that looks to many Ukrainians like surrender, or he and his country can continue to fight a war they are slowly losing.

With his new 28-point plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump is resurfacing his argument that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy doesn't “have the cards” to continue on the battlefield and must come to a settlement that heavily tilts in Moscow's favor.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, along with more than a dozen world leaders meeting in South Africa, issued a joint statement on Saturday saying U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Ukraine needs more work.

Trump's dispatch of the Army's top official to Ukraine was cast by the administration as a fresh approach to ending the conflict.

The Ukraine talks were part of the G7 meeting that Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand is hosting in southern Ontario as tensions rise between the U.S. and traditional allies such as Canada over defense spending, trade and uncertainty over Trump’s ceasefire plan in Gaza and his Russia-Ukraine peace efforts.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he wants to negotiate with U.S. President Donald Trump over a peace plan the U.S. is working on with Russia which includes Ukraine ceding territory in the Donbas to Russia and giving up weapons.