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Zelensky proposes new talks to US envoys

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Zelensky proposes new talks to US envoysPress Service of the President of Ukraine · CC BY 4.0

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed new discussions with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to move towards ending the war with Russia. He also says he supports Donald Trump’s proposed energy truce, provided Moscow respects it, according to Daily Maverick.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed to US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that they hold new talks in the coming days. His team has sent proposals to the US side, he said in a video address, according to Daily Maverick.

Zelensky also said that Ukraine supported the energy truce proposed by US President Donald Trump, provided that Russia respected it. The move comes after talks in the United States the previous week, during which Witkoff and Kushner presented an agreement allowing Russian diesel exports as a way of bringing Moscow back to the negotiating table.

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