KYIV: Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with top Pentagon officials in Kyiv on Thursday, his office said, as details emerge of a US plan to end the war with Moscow on terms favorable to the Kremlin.
The meeting will take place a day after Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff skipped a meeting with Zelensky in Turkiye, in a blow to Kyiv’s hopes to reinvigorate diplomacy and re-engage Washington in pressuring Russia to halt its invasion.
It also comes a day after a Russian strike killed at least 26 people in one of Moscow’s deadliest attacks on Ukraine this year.
A Pentagon delegation, headed by US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko met Driscoll on Thursday, calling the visit an opportunity for the US officials “assess the situation on the ground and to witness firsthand the consequences of Russian aggression.”
