The United States has proposed that the United Arab Emirates host a trilateral meeting with Ukraine and Russia to discuss ending their four-and-a-half-year war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Friday, Reuters reported.
“The American side has proposed… meeting at a technical level in a three-way format,” Zelenskiy told reporters in a briefing via WhatsApp. “We are awaiting a proposal from the United States regarding the date, and the United States has suggested the Emirates as a possible location.”
Zelenskiy held talks this week with President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. After those talks, he said, Ukrainian negotiators met U.S. counterparts on specifics: “We will inform and discuss these details with the European side, the Americans will talk to the Russians, and we will return in 10 days with either a new perspective or a result.” The Kremlin said Friday a trilateral meeting with Ukraine and the U.S. could happen soon.
Zelenskiy also said he asked Trump to raise the Ukraine war in talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is on a state visit to the U.S., and that he was still awaiting feedback on winter de-escalation efforts. He warned European partners Russia would continue hybrid attacks — claims the Kremlin denies.
Sources: Reuters (Olena Harmash, Pavel Polityuk, Daniel Flynn); AP
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