The White House has proposed a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine and Trump said last week that an agreement was “closer than ever.” But U.S. State Secretary Marco Rubio said on Friday that there was still “a ways to go” going into this weekend’s talks in Florida.
The Kremlin on Sunday denied that trilateral talks with Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. were in the offing during the discussions in Miami. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Washington had floated the prospect of three-way talks this weekend, but he added that he was “not sure something new would come” such a meeting in Florida.
“At present, no one has seriously discussed this initiative, and to my knowledge, it is not in preparation,” Putin’s top foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov told journalists, Agence France Presse reported, citing Russian news agencies.
European leaders late last week agreed to give Ukraine a €90 billion loan using joint EU borrowing, after plans to use Russian frozen assets to fund Kyiv’s war effort were torpedoed by Belgium.