Jan. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump was due to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Davos in a renewed push to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, which also sees U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, headed to Russia.
Zelensky arrived in Davos ahead of his meeting with Trump at 1 p.m. local time, which was expected to focus on Trump's proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which marks its fourth anniversary next month, but also on a $800 billion post-war U.S.-Ukraine economic partnership.
Negotiations that have been on the back burner since U.S.-Ukraine talks in late December that both sides hailed as bringing a peace deal within touching distance, resumed last weekend when Witkoff's team held talks with Ukrainian officials in the United States and then with lead Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.
Before departing from Davos for Moscow, Witkoff said that only one element of the peace framework -- understood to be arrangements around Ukraine's withdrawal from parts of Donestsk that it still controls -- was still outstanding.
"We've got it down to one issue. We've discussed iterations of that issue, and that means it's solvable. So if both sides want to solve this, we're going to get it solved," he told a panel at an event titled "Ukrainian Breakfast."
