Next trilateral meeting will take place on Wednesday and Thursday in Abu Dhabi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the next trilateral talks with Russia and the United States will take place on Wednesday and Thursday after meetings planned for Sunday were scrubbed due to Washington’s focus on rising tensions in the Middle East.
“The dates for the next trilateral meetings have been set: February 4 and 5 in Abu Dhabi,” Zelenskyy said in a post on social media on Sunday. “Ukraine is ready for substantive talks, and we are interested in the outcome bringing us closer to a real and dignified end to the war.”
In his nightly video address Saturday, Zelenskyy had said that Kyiv was still waiting for clarity from U.S. officials — who are mediating the negotiation process — on when and where the next round would take place.
The three sides last convened a week ago, and the Ukrainian leader stressed that he remains “ready to work in all formats” to pursue a breakthrough toward ending the war.
Meanwhile, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff held what he described as “productive and constructive” discussions in Florida with Kremlin representative Kirill Dmitriev.
Witkoff said the fate of Donbas remains a central sticking point, with Kyiv continuing to reject Moscow’s demands that it relinquish control of the territory.
Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, were restoring electricity to capital and other areas of the country after emergency power outages on Saturday swept across several Ukrainian cities as well as neighboring Moldova, officials said. Ukraine’s Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said the outages were due to a technical malfunction affecting power lines linking Ukraine and Moldova.
The failure “caused a cascading outage in Ukraine’s power grid,” triggering automatic protection systems, Shmyhal said.
Ukraine is dealing with a state of emergency in the country’s energy sector after Russian forces devastated the power and heating systems of Ukrainian cities during a bitterly cold winter.