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US proposes Ukraine-Russia talks in Miami, Zelenskyy reportedly says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that the U.S. has offered a format for peace talks featuring Ukraine and Russia at the same table.

“They proposed this format as far as I understand: Ukraine, America, Russia,” Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv, according to multiple media reports. He added that it would be “logical to hold such a joint meeting … after we understand the potential results of the meeting that has already taken place” in Berlin.

Whether the trilateral talks occur depends on the results of U.S.-Ukrainian negotiations that began on Friday, Zelenskyy told journalists on Saturday. If they do take place, a European delegation that is also now in Florida may join the discussion, he said.

U.S. lead negotiator Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly met with Ukraine’s delegation, led by Rustem Umerov, on Friday in Miami. This follows the recent trip to Berlin by Witkoff and Kushner to meet with Ukrainian and European officials.

The discussions in Germany resulted in the U.S. offering Kyiv security guarantees similar to those it would receive as a member of NATO, American officials said. The offer is the strongest and most explicit security pledge the Trump administration has put forward for Ukraine.

Russia’s representative in the talks over a Ukraine peace deal, Kirill Dmitriev, is set to meet Saturday with the U.S. negotiating team in Florida. Dmitriev wrote on X that he is “on the way to Miami,” sharing a video of the sun breaking through clouds.

“As warmongers keep working overtime to undermine the U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, I remembered this video from my previous visit — light breaking through the storm clouds,” said Dmitriev.

Ukrainian and Russian representatives last met face-to-face in July in Istanbul, but little progress emerged from that meeting beyond prisoner swaps.

The U.S. is currently pushing a peace deal that would likely require Ukraine to give up parts of its territory, a sticking point that Ukrainians are reluctant to accept.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that “there’s no peace deal unless Ukraine agrees to it,” adding that he may also take part in the potential talks between Russia and Ukraine.

“But there’s also no peace deal unless Russia agrees to it,” Rubio said. ″So our job is not to force anything on anyone. It is to try to figure out if we can nudge both sides to a common place.”

Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported Saturday that Russia has lost almost 1,200,000 troops since the beginning of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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