Volodymyr Zelenskyj has been put under hard pressure after the US President Donald Trump ordered a pause for all military aid to Ukraine.
On X, he now writes that "my team and I are ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to achieve a lasting peace".
"No one wants peace more than we do", emphasizes Zelenskyj and describes a first phase where Ukraine and Russia exchange prisoners of war and maintain "a ceasefire in the air and at sea", similar to the proposal that France's President Emmanuel Macron suggested earlier in the week.
Ukraine is also willing to sign the mineral agreement on Ukrainian natural resources in exchange for American protection, he writes.
"We see the agreement as a step towards greater security and more solid security guarantees", he writes and continues:
"We truly appreciate how much the USA has done to help Ukraine maintain our sovereignty and independence. And we remember the moment when things started to change when President Trump provided us with Javelin robots".
The post is largely a response to Trump's increasingly aggressive and baseless accusations that Zelenskyj does not want peace. Trump has also publicly expressed dissatisfaction that the Ukrainian president did not apologize after the chaotic meeting at the White House on Friday.
"The meeting did not go as it should. It's regrettable that it went as it did", writes Zelenskyj now and continues:
"Time to do the right thing now".
