The Talks in the USA about an end to the Russian war of aggression in the Ukraine According to the governments in Kyiv and Washington, the talks were “productive and constructive”. The delegations from the USA and Ukraine published a corresponding statement on the talks in Miami, Florida, on Sunday.
“Over the past three days in Florida, the Ukrainian delegation held a series of productive and constructive meetings with its American and European partners,” said the statement, shared on the online service X by Ukrainian chief negotiator Rustem Umyerov and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Accordingly, the bilateral meetings between the USA and Ukraine are primarily aimed at developing and coordinating positions on “four key documents” – a 20-point plan, a multilateral security guarantee framework, a US security guarantee framework for Ukraine and an economic and prosperity plan. Particular attention was paid to discussing timelines and the order of next steps, it said. However, no further meetings were announced.
No direct talks between Russia and Ukraine
With a view to Russia Witkoff said the country was still committed to a peace solution. “Russia highly appreciates the efforts and support of the United States to resolve the Ukraine conflict and restore global security,” Witkoff wrote. “Russia remains fully committed to the goal of achieving peace in Ukraine,” he added.
Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov had previously told Russian state television that envoy Kirill Dmitriyev in Miami should “receive information about what the Americans and Europeans” have changed in the plan presented by the US in November and then report to the government in Moscow. Dmitriyev, a former employee of the US bank Goldman Sachs, has no new news from Russia’s president
Vladimir Putin brought with him to Miami, Peskov continued.
A video on Russian state television showed Dmitriev arriving in a motorcade at the Shell Bay golf club, which is owned by Witkoff. Dmitriev met Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, for the second time this weekend. “The discussions are constructive” he said. Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov announced that Dmitriev would return to Moscow on Monday and report to the president on the outcome of his talks. “After that, we will formulate the position with which we will continue, including in our contacts with the Americans,” Ushakov said.
Zelenskyj speaks of a historic week
The Ukrainian negotiator and former defense minister Umjerov arrived in Miami on Friday. He conducted the talks together with the Ukrainian Chief of General Staff Andriy Hnatov.
The envoys from Moscow and Kyiv should met separately with Witkoff and Kushner. The Russian government had denied Ukrainian statements that there could be direct talks between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators in Miami. According to Ukraine, European envoys were also there.
Last month, the USA presented a 28-point plan to end the Russian war of aggression. The text, which was considered very Russia-friendly, was then revised at the insistence of Ukraine and its European allies. Little is known about the current version of the plan. However, it is suspected that Ukraine will continue to be asked to cede territory in return for security guarantees from the USA.
Russia is unlikely to accept the changes; an advisor to Putin described the publicly known details as “not at all constructive.” The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Meanwhile, called the talks in Miami “constructive.” They would “progress at a fairly rapid pace.”
Zelenskyj described the past week as “historic” for Ukraine. He thanked the EU, which was preparing for another summit at its summit in Brussels on Friday night
Support worth 90 billion euros had agreed for the next two years. “We fought for this for a very long time,” he added.
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