Trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia and the United States (US) continued today in Geneva, Ukraine's chief negotiator Rustem Umerov announced on the IX website.
"Consultations are being held in working groups by area within political and military topics. We are working to clarify the parameters and decision-making mechanisms that we discussed yesterday," Umerov wrote on the X network.
He said they were "focused on meaningful work" and would provide additional information on the outcome of the talks.
The talks that began yesterday in Geneva represent the third round of trilateral negotiations mediated by the US.
The US is being represented by US President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. On the Russian side, the chief negotiator is President Vladimir Putin's aide, Vladimir Medinsky.
US President's special envoy Steve Witkoff said in a post on the X network earlier that "significant progress" was made in Geneva yesterday in US-brokered talks between Ukraine and Russia on ending the war and that those talks are continuing today.
As reported by the BBC, there is little hope that a breakthrough will be achieved in the negotiations, as the Kremlin has not given in on its maximalist demands for Ukrainian territory.
US-brokered peace talks in Switzerland are taking place as US President Donald Trump has twice suggested in recent days that Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky should take steps to ensure the talks are successful, Reuters reports.
In an interview with the American portal Axios yesterday, Zelensky said it was "unfair" that Trump was publicly calling on Ukraine, not Russia, to make concessions in the peace plan negotiations. He also said that any plan that required Ukraine to hand over territory not occupied by Russia in the eastern Donbas region would be rejected by Ukrainians if put to a referendum.
Zelensky expressed hope that this was just Trump's tactics and not his decision.
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