Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Sunday with envoys of U.S. President Donald Trump in Berlin to discuss possible paths to ending the war with Russia, launching two days of high-level diplomacy.
Trump has pushed for an end to the almost four-year-old conflict but key questions remain on territorial concessions, future security guarantees for Kyiv, and whether Russia would agree to any proposal hammered out by the Europeans and Americans.
German leader Friedrich Merz was shown offering a "warm welcome" to Zelenskyy as well Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and the U.S. president's son-in-law Jared Kushner in a short video released by the chancellery.
"We began our meeting," Zelenskyy said on Facebook, posting pictures of the Ukrainian delegation joined by Merz, the U.S. representatives and NATO's top commander in Europe, U.S. General Alexus Grynkewich.
"We want a lasting peace in Ukraine," Merz wrote on X. "Difficult questions lie ahead of us, but we are determined to move forward.
