Volodymyr Zelensky met high-level envoys including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Berlin to review United States-presented security guarantees intended to deter further Russian attacks and to spur negotiations toward a ceasefire.Leaders reported progress on a prior twenty-point draft and discussed a more expansive twenty-eight-point plan that proposes a European-led multinational formation backed by United States intelligence and a United States-led monitoring and verification mechanism while Zelensky rejected territorial concessions absent legally binding guarantees.In The Hague Zelensky and representatives from more than thirty countries moved to launch an International Claims Commission to help compensate Ukrainians for wartime damage, with funding proposals that include using frozen Russian assets but with substantial legal and political obstacles.