“The Ukrainian delegation has held a number of productive and constructive meetings with partners in America and Europe,” Ukrainian envoy Rustem Umjerov and US representative Steve Witkoff announced in a joint statement.
It is unclear which envoys represented European countries. Lieutenant General Andriy Gnatov also participated from the Ukrainian side.
Double messages
The Russian invasion force is represented in Miami by Kirill Dmitriyev. He arrived in Miami on Saturday and has since held talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Kirill said after the meetings that the talks had been good, without going into detail about the content.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin's adviser, Yuri Ushakov, in Moscow, said on Sunday that the chances of a peace agreement have not been improved by the changes made to the original peace plan first put forward by the United States.
“Not improving”
"I am sure that the proposals that the Europeans and the Ukrainians have made, or are trying to make, definitely do not improve the document and do not increase the possibility of achieving a lasting peace," he said, according to a Reuters report.
Ushakov also rejects reports from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Washington has proposed direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in which the United States would also participate.
"At the moment, no one has seriously discussed this initiative, as far as I know, and it is not among what is being prepared," he told Russian media.
