Days after Kyiv declared a deal was “90 percent” complete, security advisers from Ukraine’s main allies convened in Kyiv on Saturday to discuss a US-brokered proposal to end the war with Russia. The first of several meetings scheduled for the new year was attended by officials from 15 nations, including Britain, France, Germany, and representatives from the European Union and NATO.
A Ukrainian official told AFP that US special envoy Steve Witkoff also participated online, although the events were overshadowed by the US’s massive military assault on Venezuela earlier in the day. According to Ukraine, a follow-up gathering of European leaders was scheduled for Tuesday in France.
Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s senior negotiator, posted on Telegram that “national security advisers from European countries have arrived in Kyiv.” In a subsequent post, he said that the meeting had begun.
Framework documents, including security guarantees and approaches to the peace plan, as well as the sequence of further joint steps, were the focus of the first part of the meeting,” he stated. Though Moscow and Kyiv are still at differences over the crucial question of territory in a post-war settlement, diplomatic attempts to put an end to the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II have accelerated in recent weeks.
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