WASHINGTON\/MOSCOW\/KYIV \u2014 Ukrainian negotiators are due to hold talks in Florida on Sunday, as the country\u2019s representatives traveled to the United States to work on a renewed push to end the conflict.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X that the delegation, headed by national security chief Rustem Umerov, was on its way to \u201cswiftly and substantively work out the steps needed\u201d to end the conflict.<\/p>\n
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, were expected to sit down with a Ukrainian delegation to further hash out the details of a proposed peace framework.<\/p>\n
A US delegation is expected to travel to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the second half of this week.<\/p>\n
On Friday, just before the Florida sit-down, Zelensky announced the resignation of the head of his office, Andriy Yermak, who was the country\u2019s lead negotiator in talks with the US.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, anti-corruption authorities conducted searches in Yermak\u2019s home as part of an investigation, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau said, without giving further details.<\/p>\n
It was only a week ago that Rubio had met with Yermak in Geneva, with each side saying the talks had been positive in putting together a revised peace plan.<\/p>\n
Now, the Ukrainian delegation includes Andrii Hnatov, the head of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces; Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister; and Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine\u2019s security council, Zelensky has said.<\/p>\n
Diplomats have been focused on revising the US-proposed 28-point peace plan unveiled last month.<\/p>\n
Following its release, representatives from the US, Ukraine and several European countries met in Geneva to discuss the plan.<\/p>\n
After the discussions, the plan has been cut down to 19 points but has not been made public.<\/p>\n
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Moscow has received the parameters of the peace plan for Ukraine adjusted following consultations in Geneva.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main parameters have been communicated, and there will be a discussion in Moscow next week,\u201d Peskov said.<\/p>\n
He said the Kremlin will not disclose all details of the plan, adding that everything will be discussed.<\/p>\n
Trump said on Tuesday that he would send Witkoff and perhaps Kushner to Moscow this week to meet with Putin about the plan.<\/p>\n
On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron will host Zelensky for talks in Paris, the French presidency announced.<\/p>\n
Macron\u2019s office said the two leaders will \u201cdiscuss the situation and the conditions for a just and lasting peace, in continuity with the Geneva discussions, the US plan, and in close coordination with our European partners\u201d.<\/p>\n
Despite the diplomatic efforts, fighting on the battlefield shows no signs of easing.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Russian drone and missile attacks in and around Ukraine\u2019s capital, Kyiv, killed at least three people and wounded dozens more, officials said.<\/p>\n
Fresh attacks overnight into Sunday killed one person and wounded 19 others, local officials said, when a drone hit a nine-story apartment block in the city of Vyshhorod in the Kyiv region.<\/p>\n
In Russia, a major oil terminal near the port of Novorossiysk stopped operations on Saturday after a strike by unmanned boats damaged one of its three mooring points, according to a statement from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which owns the terminal.<\/p>\n
Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, confirmed that Ukraine had carried out the attack.<\/p>\n
Russia will notify all international platforms about the attack, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday, as cited by state-run RIA news agency.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the incident, Zakharova said Ukraine\u2019s actions now pose a threat to global security.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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