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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday he had agreed to meet US President Donald Trump in New York, following a phone call between the two leaders that he described as producing new momentum toward ending the war with Russia.
"I just spoke with President Donald J Trump. An important conversation, and we got through a lot," Zelenskyy wrote in a post on Facebook. "We agreed to meet in New York, and this meeting could change a lot. There is diplomatic momentum," he said.
In a separate post on X, Zelenskyy thanked Trump for sending Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Kyiv, saying the two officials had gone through "key details thoroughly" and had seen the situation in Ukraine firsthand. He called the peace track Ukraine's "number one priority."
Zelenskyy said there were ideas under discussion for de-escalation steps and for addressing what he called fundamental security issues, including energy security, food security and the protection of human life. He said Ukraine was working with the American team and was ready to take "really serious steps."
Zelenskyy also thanked Trump for signing into law a bill introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham, saying, "We all concur, there must be peace." He closed his message by thanking those standing with and helping Ukraine.
The planned New York meeting comes as Washington pushes for renewed face-to-face peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv. US-led efforts to end the war, now in its fourth and a half year, have stalled in recent months as Washington's attention shifted toward its conflict with Iran. In the meantime, both Russia and Ukraine have intensified long-range strikes against each other.
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