The Ukrainian delegation has arrived at the Miami meeting site as top negotiators for US President Donald Trump prepare to meet with Ukrainian officials in Florida on Sunday, Nov. 30.

“HAPPENING NOW!! The Ukrainian delegation has arrived at the Miami meeting site, kicking off high-stakes talks regarding the situation in Ukraine,” Kyiv Post’s Chief Correspondent in Washington DC, Alex Raufoglu wrote on X.

Earlier, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov on social media announced the start of a meeting between the Ukrainian and American delegations on “steps to achieve a decent peace,” but later deleted the post.

HAPPENING NOW!! The Ukrainian delegation has arrived at the Miami meeting site, kicking off high-stakes talks regarding the situation in Ukraine.

— Alex Raufoglu (@ralakbar) November 30, 2025

As per the previous Kyiv Post report, US negotiators are set to meet with Ukrainian officials in Florida on Sunday, according to a senior US official.

The American team - led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and presidential adviser Jared Kushner - will build on last weekend’s talks in Geneva. Those discussions laid out the broad contours of a potential deal, though major political and territorial issues remain unresolved.

The Ukrainian delegation includes Rustem Umerov, First Deputy Foreign Minister Serhiy Kyslytsia, and Ambassador to the US, Olha Stefanishyna. According to Axios, it also features Chief of Staff Gen. Andriy Hnatov and Ukrainian intelligence officials.

The Florida talks come at a turbulent moment for Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky is dealing with political fallout after a corruption investigation forced the resignation of his chief of staff and chief negotiator, Andriy Yermak, on Friday.

Yermak was a key participant in the Geneva round and even briefed reporters alongside Rubio afterward.

Meanwhile, Witkoff is scheduled to travel to Moscow next week - a plan raising concern among analysts in Washington and Kyiv who fear some Trump advisers may be edging too close to Russian positions. The White House firmly denies this.

Notably, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, announced during a briefing that Putin is scheduled to meet with Witkoff ahead of Putin’s visit to India around Dec. 4-5. Peskov did not provide a more specific date or further details about the meeting.

To assess expectations for Sunday, former US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst offered a measured readout to Kyiv Post. He pushed back on claims that Geneva yielded little progress, calling the talks productive.

“My understanding is that the Geneva negotiations went well right after the difficult negotiation between [Army Secretary Dan] Driscoll and Zelensky and others in Kyiv,” Herbst said.

According to Herbst, the updated draft removed several contentious Russian demands, including ceding western Donbas, unusual terms on frozen Russian assets, explicit NATO references, and the elimination of security guarantees.

Still, he said, both sides agreed that the toughest issues must now be handled directly by the presidents: “Both parties have stated that the most difficult issues need to be resolved at the level of presidents.”

Herbst described Sunday’s meeting as a diagnostic step.

“My expectation would be that the US wants to see if there’s any additional Ukrainian flexibility on these points before Witkoff goes to Moscow,” he told Kyiv Post.

He added that Washington may already have “some Russian feedback” it wants to test, while Ukraine will be looking for signs of “American flexibility.”