Ukraine’s top negotiator Rustem Umerov will on Thursday meet US counterparts in Florida in a bid to revive talks on ending the Russia-Ukraine war, Kiev has said, as negotiations remained largely frozen over the war in the Middle East.
US-mediated talks on ending Europe’s worst conflict since World War II have shown little progress since February, when Washington shifted focus to its war with Iran.
“The Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine will hold a series of meetings today with envoys of the President of the United States,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X, referring to Umerov.
“First, the humanitarian track. We hope it will be possible to carry out a new stage of the release of prisoners. Second, the reinvigoration of the diplomatic process,” Zelenskyy added.
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Failed talks
Umerov last met with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Florida between March 21-22.
