President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced that a Ukrainian delegation led by Security Council Secretary Rustem Umerov is traveling to the United States to continue negotiations aimed at ending Russia-Ukraine war. The move comes after a sudden leadership change in Kyiv’s negotiating team. Umerov was appointed to head the delegation following the resignation of Zelenskiy’s influential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, who stepped down on Friday. His resignation occurred just hours after anti-corruption investigators searched his apartment, raising questions about internal political pressures within the Ukrainian government.
Zelenskiy said he expected that the results of previous meetings with the U.S. in Geneva, which took place last weekend, would now be “hammered out” on Sunday. Those meetings allowed Ukraine to present a counter-offer to proposals laid out by U.S. Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll to leaders in Kyiv almost two weeks ago.
