U.S. lead negotiator Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly met with Ukraine’s delegation, led by Rustem Umerov, on Friday in Miami. This follows the recent trip to Berlin by Witkoff and Kushner to meet with Ukrainian and European officials.
The discussions in Germany resulted in the U.S. offering Kyiv security guarantees similar to those it would receive as a member of NATO, American officials said. The offer is the strongest and most explicit security pledge the Trump administration has put forward for Ukraine.
“It is extremely important to have strong security guarantees in place to prevent even the thought or the physical ability to come back to us with aggression,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X Saturday afternoon. “Peace is better than war, but not at any cost, because we have already paid a high price,” he added.
“What matters for us is a just, durable peace — one that cannot be violated by another whim of Putin or any other Putin-like figure,” the Ukrainian leader said.
Russia’s representative in the talks over a Ukraine peace deal, Kirill Dmitriev, is set to meet Saturday with the U.S. negotiating team in Florida. Dmitriev wrote on X that he is “on the way to Miami,” sharing a video of the sun breaking through clouds.
“As warmongers keep working overtime to undermine the U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, I remembered this video from my previous visit — light breaking through the storm clouds,” said Dmitriev.