The delegation will meet with US President Donald Trump's envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff on Friday.
The meeting is expected to last two days. We also expect a European delegation to join the negotiations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday evening.
The US has reportedly invited representatives from the EU and NATO, as well as from Germany, France and the UK, to participate, as Zelenskyy had previously hoped.
"Sew the mouth back on"
Zelenskyy said earlier on Thursday that it is not possible to “negotiate with Russia about future economic projects on the one hand and, on the other, say that we have reached a kind of diplomatic impasse.” This came after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it a stalemate.
The Ukrainian president also appealed to the United States for help defending Ukraine against Russian air strikes. Only then will Putin negotiate, according to Zelenskyy. He called on the United States to “sew the mouth” of Russia and “stop feeding them deals.”
Hope for meetings
Envoys Kushner and Witkoff were in Moscow and Kyiv in early September. Afterwards, they said they had high hopes for new trilateral meetings between the countries. Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriyev was in Washington just over a week ago and said they discussed both an end to the war and “energy investments.”
The Ukrainian delegation is said to include the chief of staff of the Presidential Administration, Kyrylo Budanov, and the chairman of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, former Defense Minister Rustem Umyrov, journalist Barak Ravid reports on X.
