Zelenskyy: European partners to join Ukrainian negotiating team in US
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Thursday 8 October that European partners will join the Ukrainian negotiating team visiting the United States on 9-10 October.
Source: Zelenskyy speaking to journalists, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Zelenskyy said Ukrainian negotiators will meet with US President Donald Trump's special envoys in the US on 9 October.
Quote from Zelenskyy: "The Ukrainian negotiating team is meeting tomorrow, on Friday, in the United States of America with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. On our side will be Budanov, Kyslytsia, Arakhamiia and Umierov. Two days of meetings are expected, and we are counting on a European team joining both our negotiating group and the American negotiating group." [Kyrylo Budanov is Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine; Serhii Kyslytsia is First Deputy Head of the President's Office; Davyd Arakhamiia is head of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction; and Rustem Umierov is Head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service – ed.]
Details: The president expects the negotiating team to be back in Kyiv on Monday 12 October morning to brief him on all the details.
According to Zelenskyy, various options for a sectoral ceasefire are being discussed at the talks.
Quote from Zelenskyy: "We are discussing all of them – both the sea and the energy sector. I am not yet ready to say what might be realistic or more realistic... Let's just say I don't want to say something only for Russia, as usual, to do the exact opposite out of spite."
Details: He added that air defence would also be discussed with the US side, while bringing forward financing would be discussed with the Europeans.
Background:
- Earlier on Thursday 8 October, Zelenskyy announced that Ukrainian negotiators would be in the US on 9-10 October for talks with the American side.
- The day before, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that diplomatic negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war are currently "proving elusive".
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