Ukrainian Delegation Heads to U.S. for Peace Talks After Geneva Meetings

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that a delegation headed by security council secretary Rustem Umerov was on its way to the United States to continue talks on an agreement to end the war.

Zelenskiy said he expected that the results of previous meetings with the U.S. in Geneva, which took place last weekend, would now be “hammered out” on Sunday.

Those meetings allowed Ukraine to present a counter-offer to proposals laid out by U.S. Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll to leaders in Kyiv almost two weeks ago.

“Rustem delivered a report today, and the task is clear: to swiftly and substantively work out the steps needed to end the war,” Zelenskiy wrote on X.

Meanwhile, Russia is making incremental gains on the front line and Ukrainian cities suffer hours of blackouts every day due to a rolling bombardment of its power grid.

Zelenskiy has said Ukraine is in one of the most difficult moments in its history, but promised his people in an address last week that he would not betray the country.