The Kremlin denied this Sunday (December 21, 2025) the preparation of a trilateral meeting with Kiev and Washington, while talks on ending the conflict in Ukraine are taking place in Miami. “At the moment, no one has seriously spoken about this initiative and, as far as I know, it is not being prepared,” diplomatic adviser to the Russian presidency Yuri Ushakov told the press, quoted by the TASS agency.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Washington had proposed organizing a trilateral meeting, citing Rustem Umerov, one of the Kiev negotiators who traveled to Miami on Friday. Today he called for wider consultations with European partners. “We are moving forward quite quickly, and our team in Florida has been working with the American side,” Zelensky said in Telegram, without mentioning a possible meeting with Russia.
Round meeting in Florida
This weekend, another round of negotiations took place in Florida, attended by Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as Ukrainian and European envoys, and Russian envoys. Kirill Dmitriev, Moscow’s envoy, arrived in Miami on Saturday and said that talks with Witkoff and Kushner were “developing constructively,” according to Russian authorities.
Talks continue this Sunday and Ushakov told reporters that he had “not seen” the new US proposal to end the conflict, drawn up after a meeting between Washington and Ukrainian and European envoys. Dmitriev “will return to Moscow, submit his report and we will discuss what to do next,” the Kremlin adviser said.
An all-party roundtable would be the first in six months, but the Ukrainian president was skeptical about the possible outcomes. “I’m not sure anything new will emerge,” he told reporters on Saturday. Previous meetings held in Türkiye this summer failed to reach agreement on prisoner exchanges.
LGC (AFP, EFE)
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