U.S. Vice President JD Vance told reporters in India on Wednesday that the U.S. had issued a “very explicit proposal” to Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict, adding: “The current lines, somewhere close to them is where you’re ultimately, I think, going to draw the new lines in the conflict.”
‘We will work for peace’
The ditching of talks leaves the high-level European delegations traveling to London — from France, Germany, the U.K. and Ukraine — in a bind.
The U.K. Foreign Office decided that the meeting of “the Quad” — the U.K., U.S., France and Germany — with Ukraine would now be conducted by officials instead of Foreign Secretary David Lammy hosting. Lammy will drop in on talks and still hold a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha.
Sybiha arrived in London Wednesday morning alongside Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and Zelesnkyy’s top aide Andriy Yermak.
Yermak said in a statement: “Despite everything, we will work for peace.”
He added: “As agreed in Paris, we will meet with American and European interlocutors who are in the British capital today.