Meeting to follow flurry of talks among US, Russian and Ukrainian envoys, but Putin shows few signs of softening demands
Meeting to follow flurry of talks among US, Russian and Ukrainian envoys, but Putin shows few signs of softening demands
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to travel to the US in the coming days for a key meeting with Donald Trump, as Washington continues to push for a possible peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow.
The Ukrainian president announced the visit on Friday in a social media post, saying he had received a briefing from Rustem Umerov, the secretary of Ukraine’s national security and defence council, on new contacts with US officials.
“We are not losing a single day. We have agreed on a meeting at the highest level – with President Trump in the near future,” Zelenskyy said, adding that “a lot can be decided before the New Year”.
Washington has not publicly confirmed the meeting. A reporter for Axios, Barak Ravid, said on X that Trump and Zelenskyy were expected to meet on Sunday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
