Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he will meet his US counterpart, Donald Trump, in Florida during the weekend, as talks continue on ending the full-scale war against Russia. Talking to reporters in Kyiv, President Zelensky said he expected the meeting to take place on Sunday and focus will on a US-brokered 20-point peace plan, as well as security guarantees for Ukraine. He said the 20-point plan was 90 per cent complete. He said that an economic agreement will also be discussed, and the Ukrainian side will also raise territorial issues.
In an interview with an American news organisation published yesterday, President Trump said his Ukrainian counterpart does not have anything till he approves it. Mr Trump said he expects to speak with the Russian leader soon. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday that Moscow is in contact with U.S. representatives since Russian Presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev recently met with US envoys in Florida. He said that it was agreed upon to continue the dialogue.
The US President is engaged in a diplomatic push to endthe Ukraine-Russia war, which began on 24th of February 2022, but his efforts have run into sharply conflicting demands by Moscow and Kyiv. Ukraine has said it is willing to withdraw troops from the eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan to end the war, if Russia also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarised zone monitored by international forces. Russia, on the other hand, though it has spoken of slow but steady progress in peace talks, the Kremlin has given no indication that it will agree to any kind of withdrawal from the land it has seized.
