US President Donald Trump announced that he had instructed his special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. He wrote about this on social media Truth Social .
According to Trump, only a few differences remained to be agreed upon regarding the proposed"peace plan," but they were refined during the dialogue between the two sides.
"In hopes of completing work on this peace plan, I have instructed my special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to meet with President Putin in Moscow. At the same time, US Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will meet with the Ukrainian side," the head of the White House said.
Trump also wrote that he looks forward to meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin in the near future.
As Trump noted, this can only happen when the agreement to end the war in Ukraine is final or is already in its final stages.
Trump said his team had made great progress in the past week in ending the war between Russia and Ukraine, citing figures that 25,000 troops had been killed in the past month.
The head of the White House shared that initially the"peace plan" had 28 points, but it was finalized taking into account the proposals of both sides.
Negotiations between the US and Ukraine
UNIAN previously reported that the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, stated that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky wants to meet with the US president Donald Trump as soon as possible to agree on an agreement between the United States and Ukraine on the terms of ending the war.
Delegations from Ukraine and the United States managed to reach an agreement in principle on most points of the plan. Now Zelensky wants to discuss the issue of territories personally with the head of the White House.
We also wrote that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference that the Russian side had received Trump's plan through unofficial channels. Lavrov added that they were ready to discuss it, but There are a number of issues that require"explanation". Therefore, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry added, the Kremlin expects an intermediate version of the document from the Americans.
