{"id":38349,"date":"2026-09-07T01:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/38349\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:24:17","slug":"restarting-the-negotiation-process-is-important-and-ukraine-is-grateful-to-the-u-s-president-and-his-envoys-for-this-step-volodymyr-zelenskyy-following-a-meeting-with-the-u-s-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/38349\/","title":{"rendered":"Restarting the Negotiation Process Is Important, and Ukraine Is Grateful to the U.S. President and His Envoys for This Step \u2013 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Following a Meeting with the U.S. President\u2019s Envoys in Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Negotiations to end Russia\u2019s war against our country are important in any format in which such diplomatic steps are possible. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this at a press conference following a meeting in Kyiv with the U.S. President\u2019s envoys, Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may prefer certain formats of negotiations, but nevertheless, it is worse when there are no formats of negotiations at all. I want to recognize the role of Steve and Jared in restarting the negotiation process today. Thank you for coming. And we are grateful to the U.S. President that you are here with us in Kyiv today,\u201d Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted.<\/p>\n

Today, following the American team\u2019s talks with the head of Russia, all possibilities for restarting negotiations were discussed in Kyiv.<\/p>\n

According to the President, the territorial issue remains a relevant one. The Head of State emphasized that such complex issues can only be resolved at the level of leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the main thing is that today we have the opportunity to discuss everything \u2013 security guarantees, and we are indeed talking about Ukraine\u2019s future. And we all want \u2013 we stand in solidarity here \u2013 to end the war as soon as possible. We are talking about the prosperity plan. We are talking not only about security guarantees, but also about economic guarantees for Ukraine \u2013 to recover and rebuild. We all understand the challenges that lie ahead once the war ends. We are discussing them among ourselves; we understand them. Our army must be strong, and for us this is a key security guarantee. And all of this requires resources,\u201d Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

During the meetings, considerable attention was paid to preparations for winter and all the challenges that could arise. Ukraine is counting on support from its partners this winter, primarily to strengthen our air defense and energy sector. In particular, the President noted that Ukraine hopes to secure substantial volumes of U.S. LNG and have the opportunity to use it.<\/p>\n

The President also noted the importance of being joined in the talks in Kyiv by Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic advisor to the President of France; Jonathan Powell, national security advisor to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and G\u00fcnter Sautter, foreign and security policy advisor to the Federal Chancellor of Germany. A separate round of talks was held with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we agreed that Ukraine, Europe, and the United States will meet in the near future. I don\u2019t know where the meeting will take place \u2013 in Europe, in the United States, or perhaps here again, Steve \u2013 as I understand it, he liked our train \u2013 so perhaps in Ukraine again. But we are open in any case,\u201d the Head of State said.<\/p>\n

Steven Witkoff noted that restarting negotiations to end the war is very important to U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank you, President Zelenskyy, for your hospitality. And we look forward to spending more time here. You are amazing people. We’ve met quite a bit of people in Kyiv today, and their resiliency is so pronounced and it’s special. You’ve been brave and we commend you,\u201d the U.S. President\u2019s envoy said.<\/p>\n

Jared Kushner thanked Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his hospitality and the Ukrainian people for such a warm welcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump sends his warm regards to you and his respect. And obviously, he’s been following this very closely and working to try and find a pathway to end this war. What President Trump’s been very focused on is \u2013 how do we create a framework that could actually lead to a durable peace?\u201d the U.S. President\u2019s envoy said.<\/p>\n

He said the American side sees its task as creating a peace package.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working to construct this. And we are working with our European partners. This has been a long, emotional war, and we are all trying to resolve this together. This is a framework. We have to create a framework that will help resolve this issue,\u201d Jared Kushner said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. President\u2019s envoy also spoke about efforts to arrange talks in a trilateral format.<\/p>\n

\u201cSteve and I tried to discuss a trilateral meeting. We were not trying to convince the Russians of anything or convince the Ukrainians of anything. We simply discussed these issues in a very friendly atmosphere, and I think it was productive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The President of Ukraine held several rounds of meetings with Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The visit began at St. Sophia Cathedral, founded in 1011, where the U.S. President\u2019s envoys were given a tour and learned about this landmark of the Kyivan Rus era. The talks then took place in a bilateral format, followed later by a joint meeting of the Ukrainian and American delegations with the national security advisors to the President of France, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Federal Chancellor of Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Negotiations to end Russia\u2019s war against our country are important in any format in which such diplomatic steps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}