Zelenskyy announces new visit of Ukrainian delegation to US

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that a Ukrainian negotiation team, led by Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko and Andrii Yermak, Head of the President's Office, will visit the United States next week.

Zelenskyy said the delegation's next visit to Washington for talks is scheduled for early next week.

"A team led by Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, together with Andrii Yermak, Head of the President's Office, and Vladyslav Vlasliuk, the president's commissioner for sanctions policy, will be in the US at the beginning of next week. Topics include air defence, energy and sanctions steps, as well as the negotiation track. The issue of frozen assets will also be discussed with the US," Zelenskyy wrote on X.

Zelenskyy said he believes US President Donald Trump "wants us at the negotiating table" and is seeking an end to the war, while Kyiv is progressively briefing him on the reality on the ground.

"I believe this was his [Trump's – ed.] goal from the very beginning. We are grateful for that. I believe our meeting, combined with the actual facts, has given him a broader understanding that the Russians are 'selling' him something they are not capable of delivering. What's particularly important is that following our meeting, a dialogue is continuing at various levels (...) and our relations remain warm at various levels," he added.

Earlier, Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's ambassador to the US, met a group of senators whom she described as "our friends in the US Senate".

At the end of September, a bipartisan Congressional delegation, led by Representatives Mike Turner and Eugene Vindman, was in Kyiv on a visit.