KIEV (dpa-AFX) – After the meeting of US representatives with the Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin In Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj promised new talks between the Ukrainian delegation and US representatives. “We are preparing meetings in the United States,” he said in his evening video message. Ukraine expects news about this in the next few days.
A group led by the Secretary of the National Security Council, Rustem Umjerov, and Chief of General Staff Andriy Hnatov will continue the talks with representatives of US President Donald Trump.
Everything is going quite successfully at the moment, he said, referring to negotiations in Geneva and Florida about a US plan for a possible end to the Ukraine war. He again called for pressure on Russia. Everything depends on the combination of constructive diplomacy and pressure on the aggressor, said Zelensky.
At his sixth meeting with Putin, US special envoy Steve Witkoff explained the status of US considerations for peace in the Ukraine war. For the first time he was accompanied in the Kremlin by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said after the five-hour meeting that no compromise had yet been found. Russia has been waging a destructive war of aggression on Ukraine for almost four years./ksr/DP/mis