President Zelensky announces plans to negotiate with Russia.
Ukrainian President Zelensky expressed his intention to begin negotiations with Russia following his meeting with US President Donald Trump.
According to RIA Novosti on February 2, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that after meeting with US President Donald Trump, Kyiv should hold negotiations with Russia to end the conflict.
"After speaking with President Trump, we should move on to some form of discussion with Russia. I want the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia to sit down at the negotiating table," President Zelensky told the Associated Press.
He added that Kyiv is in contact with the Trump administration, but the discussions remain general in nature.
President Zelensky expressed hope that private meetings between representatives of Kyiv and Washington would soon take place to develop more detailed agreements. At the same time, he reported that the visit of Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, had been postponed "for legal reasons."
The Ukrainian leader also said he did not consider the idea put forward by Western countries of sending peacekeeping forces to Ukraine as "a full guarantee of security."
Earlier, on February 1st, US President Donald Trump said he was having "very serious" discussions with Russia about ending the conflict in Ukraine. Trump promised that he would speak with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and could achieve "something significant."
