Russia’s representative in the talks over a Ukraine peace deal, Kirill Dmitriev, is set to meet Saturday with the U.S. negotiating team in Florida. Dmitriev wrote on X that he is “on the way to Miami” and sharing a video of the sun breaking through clouds.
“As warmongers keep working overtime to undermine the U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, I remembered this video from my previous visit — light breaking through the storm clouds,” said Dmitriev.
Ukrainian and Russian representatives last met face-to-face in July in Istanbul, but little progress emerged from that meeting beyond prisoner swaps.
The U.S. is currently pushing a peace deal that would likely require Ukraine to give up parts of its territory, a sticking point that Ukrainians are reluctant to accept.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that “there’s no peace deal unless Ukraine agrees to it,” adding that he may also take part in the potential talks between Russia and Ukraine.
“But there’s also no peace deal unless Russia agrees to it,” Rubio said. ″So our job is not to force anything on anyone. It is to try to figure out if we can nudge both sides to a common place.”
Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported Saturday that Russia has lost almost 1,200,000 troops since the beginning of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.