On Thursday, December 4, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov is scheduled to meet with US President Donald Trump's negotiators - Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
This is reported by Associated Press citing a senior Trump administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The meeting is scheduled to take place in Miami, Florida.
The article also says that after talks in Moscow on December 2, which lasted more than 5 hours, Ukraine and its European allies accused dictator Putin of feigning interest in peace efforts. His meeting with American representatives did not yield any breakthroughs.
Thus, British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper stressed that Putin"must stop the threats and bloodshed and be ready to sit down at the negotiating table and support a just and lasting peace." Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga called on the Russian ruler to "stop wasting the world's time."
It is not known exactly what the parties discussed during the meeting in Moscow. Putin's adviser Yuri Ushakov said the talks were"positive" but he did not provide any details.
President of the United States Donald Trump During a conversation with the press, he stated that Witkoff and Kushner had the impression that Putin allegedly wanted to end the war against Ukraine.
Peace talks in Ukraine
At the end of November, the media began to actively write about the existence of a 28-point"peace plan" to end the war in Ukraine. It contained some demands that were in Moscow's favor. For example, according to the text published in the media, Ukraine was to completely withdraw from the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and reduce the size of the army.
After the publicity a meeting was held in Geneva representatives of Ukraine and the United States, where this plan was revised and shortened. Later, more negotiations took place - this time in Miami.
On December 2, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and the American leader's son-in-law Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow. There they held a meeting with Putin and his team. In the USA The negotiations were called"productive".
