In a recent development, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that the United States is proposing a 15-year security guarantee for Ukraine as part of the latest draft to resolve the ongoing conflict with Russia.

Speaking to journalists via WhatsApp on Monday, a day after his significant meeting with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Zelensky expressed his desire for an extended security assurance. He communicated to Trump that Ukraine would prefer a guarantee lasting up to 50 years.

“I brought this matter to the president’s attention,” Zelensky stated. “I mentioned that our conflict has persisted for nearly 15 years. Therefore, we are hoping for a more extended guarantee. Ideally, we’d like to consider terms of 30, 40, or even 50 years. Such an agreement would be a monumental decision by President Trump.”

Zelensky noted that President Trump responded by saying he would “consider” this request.

According to the Ukrainian president, Trump said he would “think about” the request.

The exact form of the security guarantees have not been made public, but Zelensky said Monday they would include monitoring for violations of any cease-fire as well as some sort of “presence” by the US and European nations.

“I believe that the presence of international troops is a real security guarantee, it is a strengthening of the security guarantees that our partners are already offering us,” the Ukrainian leader said Monday.

The Post reported last week that the 20-point outline calls for a coordinated military response by the US, NATO and other European countries in the event the Russian invasion restarts.

Russia has previously said it would not accept deployment of troops from NATO countries inside Ukraine, and Moscow’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, told the Tass news agency Sunday the Kremlin would view those forces as “a legitimate target.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump were expected to speak in the near future but there was no indication the Russian leader would speak to Zelensky anytime soon.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Kyiv’s allies will meet in Paris in early January to “finalize each country’s concrete contributions” to the security guarantees. It was not immediately clear whether the US would send a representative to that meeting.

Zelensky emphasized that the guarantees were required to lift the state of martial law that has been in effect since the Russian invasion began in February 2022. Under the Ukrainian constitution, elections cannot take place under martial law — meaning the presidential and parliamentary ballots scheduled for 2024 were postponed indefinitely.

“Without security guarantees, this war has not really ended,” he said Monday. “We cannot recognize that it has ended.”

Following Sunday’s meeting, Trump said he would be willing to travel to Ukraine to try and convince its legislators to support the eastern Donbas region becoming an internationally monitored, demilitarized “free economic zone.”

“I think the land — you’re talking about — some of that land has been taken [by Russia],” said the US president, adding: “Some of that land is maybe up for grabs, but it may be taken over the next period of a number of months — and you’re better off making a deal now.”

Russia has captured most of Luhansk and about 70% of Donetsk — the two areas that make up the Donbas.

Ukraine’s post-Soviet constitution requires changes to the country’s borders to be approved via a nationwide referendum — which cannot be held until a cease-fire is in effect for 60 days, a period that the Kremlin has not indicated it is willing to wait.

With Post wires