US and Ukraine delegations meet near Miami, Florida, November 30, 2025
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Ukraine’s negotiating team, seeking to end Russia’s 48 1/2-month full-scale invasion, is in the US for a meeting with American officials.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday, “There has been a pause in the talks, and it is time to resume them. We are doing everything to ensure that the negotiations are genuinely substantive.”
The delegation includes Rustem Umierov, the head of the National Security and Defense Council, and Zelensky’s Chief of Staff Kyrylo Budanov.
“Our priority is to do everything possible to create the conditions for a dignified peace,” Zelensky said.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said yesterday that there is a “situational pause” in talks because of the US-Israel War on Iran. He said Moscow may not engage in further discussion, after three sets of trilateral talks early this year.
Last week Vladimir Putin’s top advisor Kirill Dmitriev consulted with Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Florida. The three men collaborated on a 28-point ultimatum to Ukraine last autumn, but the effort was overtaken by Ukraine-Europe proposals over territory, security guarantees, and recovery and reconstruction.
While military discussions over the monitoring of a ceasefire have made progress, the political talks have not advanced. Russia is rejecting a ceasefire while maintaining its maximalist demands for seizure of territory, especially all of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, and no effective security guarantees for Kyiv.
