{"id":10808,"date":"2026-02-17T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/10808\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:53:09","slug":"ukraine-and-russia-meet-in-geneva-as-trump-piles-new-pressure-on-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/10808\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and Russia meet in Geneva as Trump piles new pressure on Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia met for the first of two days of US-mediated peace talks in Geneva on Tuesday, with US President Donald Trump pressing Kyiv to act fast to reach a deal.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump is urging Moscow and Kyiv to reach a deal to end Europe\u2019s biggest war since 1945, though Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky has complained that his country is facing the greatest pressure to make concessions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ukraine\u2019s lead negotiator Rustem Umerov said ahead of the talks that the two sides would discuss \u201csecurity and humanitarian issues\u201d. The Geneva meeting follows \u200ctwo rounds of US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi that concluded without a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe are working constructively, focused and without excessive expectations,\u201d Umerov, the head of Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defence Council, posted on social media. \u201cOur task is to maximally advance those solutions that can bring sustainable peace closer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The political portion of talks had ended by early Tuesday evening, but military representatives were still locked in discussions at a hotel in the lakeside Swiss city, according to a source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the US wait for the start of talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. Photo: Press service of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine via Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/83dd83b1-78ab-44d3-93c7-234a17f5d495_82c4604f.jpg\" title=\"Delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the US wait for the start of talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. Photo: Press service of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine via Reuters\"\/>Delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the US wait for the start of talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. Photo: Press service of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine via Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ahead of the talks, Russia carried out heavy air strikes overnight across swathes of Ukraine, inflicting severe damage to the power network in the southern port city of Odesa, which Zelensky said left tens of thousands without heat and water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia met for the first of two days of US-mediated peace talks in Geneva&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5352,8263,8262,5410,65,8260,3188,4419,4071,8261,4326,5228,136,4072,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-10808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-abu-dhabi","9":"tag-air-force-one","10":"tag-crimea","11":"tag-donetsk","12":"tag-geneva","13":"tag-igor-kostyukov","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-jared-kushner","16":"tag-kyiv","17":"tag-melitopol","18":"tag-munich-security-conference","19":"tag-odesa","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-rustem-umerov","22":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}