Meeting on Sunday will follow flurry of US, Russian and Ukrainian talks, but Putin has shown little sign of softening

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is to travel to the US for a planned meeting with Donald Trump on Sunday, as Washington continues to push for a possible peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow.

The Ukrainian president said the visit would take place at a location in Florida – widely expected to be Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort – in what would be the latest development in a diplomatic push that began in November with the circulation of a 28-point US plan shaped with input from Russian officials.

  • fox2263@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Ah the three month flip flop. Give him something gold and he’ll have tomahawks signed over by the end of the day. Until Grimer Miller whispers in his ear.

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      10 days ago

      Because the enemy is senile and flipflops depending on who he last talked to, and will give you what you ask for if it can hurt someone (missiles, in this case) and you give him a particularly garish shiny bauble in exchange.

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    10 days ago

    How I see that’s going: 5 mins with the US prez praising him using very simple words, 12+ straight hours with the high military command. One can hope.

    said the two sides would aim to “finalize as much as we can.”

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    8 days ago

    Meanwhile Trump called with putin 1,5hr long, before the meeting with Zelensky. Yuri Ushakov, the Kremlin spokesperson said that Trump had proposed to Putin that there should be two commissions, a U.S. commission and a Russian commission, to discuss security and economic cooperation. … 🤦‍♂️