The American outlet Axios, citing anonymous sources, released additional details of the telephone conversation between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, which took place on February 25. According to the material, the conversation lasted about 30 minutes and was the first since their meeting in Davos at the end of January. The sources describe the conversation as friendly and positive.<\/p>\n
The call also involved Trump\u2019s special envoys \u2013 Steve Vitkoff and Jared Kushner, who are described as participants in the high-level meeting.<\/p>\n
The initiative is expected to be discussed further: in Geneva, a meeting of the Ukrainian delegation led by Rustem Umerov and representatives of the American side is planned in the near future.<\/p>\n
Timeline of the call and future steps<\/p>\n
In Geneva, the heads of the delegations from Russia may also meet. According to interlocutors, Kushner and Vitkoff are to meet in Geneva with the Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev; previously this was reported by the Russian state news agency TASS, citing an anonymous source.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the topic was described by the Russian state news agency TASS, which cited an anonymous source.<\/p>\n
\u201cfriendly and positive\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Axios<\/p>\n
During the conversation, Zelensky thanked the United States for its help and noted that only the American president can persuade Putin to end the war. According to Axios sources, Zelensky expressed hope that the war would end this year, to which Trump allegedly replied that he would like to end it within a month.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs for July 4th, that the United States or President Trump want to end the war \u2013 I can only support such a position if the US president did really state it. For me, this is new information\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Zelensky<\/p>\n
In subsequent comments, Zelensky emphasized that the United States aims to end the war by summer and that Kyiv is actively working on new formats of pressure and dialogue from partners. It was also stressed that American weapons remain an important element of supporting Ukraine\u2019s defensive efforts.<\/p>\n
Overall, Axios\u2019s material highlights an active diplomatic process and intentions to accelerate peace talks, considering internal political factors in the United States and the situation on the front lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American outlet Axios, citing anonymous sources, released additional details of the telephone conversation between the presidents of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14097,14098,65,4198,14099,1202,14100,14101,14096],"class_list":{"0":"post-21438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-axios-report","9":"tag-diplomatic-talks","10":"tag-geneva","11":"tag-geneva-talks","12":"tag-kushner-vitkoff","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us-ukraine-diplomacy","15":"tag-zelensky-biden-phone-call","16":"tag-zelensky-biden-phone-call-geneva-talks-kushner-vitkoff-us-ukraine-diplomacy-axios-report-diplomatic-talks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21438","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=21438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}