Welcome to the News Hour. It has been a pivotal day of diplomacy and declarations for the future of the war in Ukraine now mired in its fourth year.

Ukrainian and American officials convened in London in what was billed as a make or break meeting.

Ukraine demanded a ceasefire before it would agree to any concessions while President Trump aimed his fire at Ukrainian

President Beloulemers Zelensky. Nick Schifrin's been following all of this today and he joins

us here now. So Nick, the U.S. has put forward a proposal, what's in it and how have the Ukrainians

responded. As you said, U.S. and Ukrainian officials met today in a pivotal meeting in London

on the U.S. side represented by special today in a pivotal meeting in London on the U.S. side,

represented by special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, after Secretary of State, Markerubio,

canceled at the last minute. A U.S. and European official tell me that Ukraine and Europe proposed

a counterproposal to the U.S. plan that they say is this. Ukraine would give up the right to re-sease all occupied

territory with its military. Ukraine would not join NATO. The U.S. would legally recognize

Russian control of Crimea, but Ukraine would not have to. The U.S. would also lift sanctions on

Russia. Europe would provide Ukraine security guarantees,

and then there are the territorial concessions,

which will go over with a map.

Russia currently occupies about 18% of Ukraine.

You see it there in pink.

Under the U.S. plan, the lines would essentially freeze.

So Russia would get to keep the territory.

It currently occupies.

You see that in red, in Hirsons, Zaporizia, Luhans, and Dunetsk, but it would have to give back some territory in blue up in Harkev, up in the north. It would also have to give back the Zaporizia

nuclear power plant, which you see in southern Ukraine over there, that it currently occupies. Now, that counterproposal that I mentioned, Omna, U.S., sorry, Ukrainian and European

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