“According to CBS News, American and Ukrainian officials are discussing the possibility of President Volodymyr Zelensky coming to the United States next week.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Zelensky and Trump during one of the past meetings, OP photo Source: CBS News citing sources
Literally: “U.S. and Ukrainian officials are discussing the possibility of President Volodymyr Zelensky coming to the U.S. this week as part of President Trump’s push to reach a deal on Ukraine by Thanksgiving, according to several U.S. and Ukrainian officials familiar with the negotiations.
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Whether Zelenskyi’s trip will take place depends on the results of peace talks in Geneva on Sunday, officials said.
Details: According to a senior White House official, there are currently no concrete plans for a visit by Zelensky, given the active diplomatic activity, and no talks with or on Russia’s territory.
According to another US official, another possible outcome of the talks in Geneva could be a trip by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to Russia or a meeting with Russian officials elsewhere. Russian officials told CBS News that nothing is planned at this time.
A U.S. official told CBS News that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin appears to believe he will take over Ukraine’s Donetsk region one way or another — either through negotiations or on the battlefield. According to the source, the Trump administration’s talks in Geneva began with Putin being right.
Although the same American official refused to provide a US assessment of whether Ukraine will lose the war in the east, he noted that the course of hostilities indicated that Russia would seize the Donetsk region. According to him, Russia’s advance in the eastern front-line city of Pokrovsk, which is a logistics center, is not a positive sign for Kyiv’s defense prospects.
Prehistory:
- President Volodymyr Based on the results of the first reports of the Ukrainian team at the negotiations in Geneva on Sunday afternoon, Zelenskyi said that the proposals of the US can take into account a number of elementswhich are based on the Ukrainian vision and are critically important for the national interests of Ukraine.
- The Secretary of the National Security Council, a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the peace talks, Rustem Umyerov stated that the current version of the “peace plan” already reflects most of the key Ukrainian priorities.
- Great Britain, Germany and France have prepared counter-proposals to the US “peace plan” of 28 points, which provide, in particular, the limitation of the number of the Armed Forces to 800,000 people and the beginning of negotiations from the contact line. The mass media published the full text.
- Following the peace talks in Geneva, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that significant progress had been made on Sunday, while he had “heard nothing” about proposals from European representatives, although there was a meeting with the national security advisors of European countries.