“It’s disrespectful [for them] to come to Moscow and not Kyiv, it’s just disrespectful,” Zelensky mentioned in an interview with a Ukrainian outlet.
“I understand we have complex logistics… If they don’t want to, we can meet in other countries,” he added.
Witkoff, a former actual property magnate, is Donald Trump’s particular envoy and Kushner is the US president’s son-in-law.
Earlier in April Zelensky mentioned the 2 have been planning on visiting Ukraine, however that journey by no means materialised amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran.
The final trilateral summit between Russia, the US and Ukraine was in mid-February.
Less than two weeks later, the US and Israel started putting Iran and a focus switched away from ending the Ukraine conflict, which has been raging for greater than 4 years.
Witkoff and Kushner are half of the US negotiating group travelling to Pakistan for ceasefire talks with Iran, and Zelensky acknowledged that the eye of the US was on the Middle East.
“But… in any case, for us it is important to continue cooperating with the Americans,” he added.
Ceasefire talks gained tempo in autumn 2025, when it emerged that Russian and US officers had been engaged on a plan to finish the conflict in Ukraine that appeared to embrace a number of phrases unfavourable to Kyiv.
Ukraine pushed to be concerned within the talks, and several other conferences and summits ensued.
By February, each Moscow and Kyiv mentioned that they had reached an settlement on some “military issues”, together with the situation of the entrance line and ceasefire monitoring.
Other points stay unresolved, together with Ukraine’s demand that Russia returns the Ukrainian youngsters it forcibly deported because the begin of the conflict, and Moscow’s insistence on a “regime change” in Kyiv.
But the important thing matter is the standing of Ukraine’s jap Donbas area. Moscow’s demand for sovereign Ukrainian territory in change for an finish to the conflict is unacceptable to Kyiv, and neither facet is prepared to budge – leaving the talks at a dead-end.
“We are looking for a compromise between two completely polar positions,” mentioned Kyrylo Budanov, Zelensky’s chief of employees, in February. “We have not yet found it.”
In the tip, he added, each Kyiv and Moscow will “have to acknowledge one of two things: either we find a solution and end this war, or we all equally take responsibility for admitting that we didn’t find a solution and continue to kill one another – something we do quite efficiently and professionally.”
