{"id":423399,"date":"2026-01-22T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423399\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:36:09","slug":"zelenskyy-meets-trump-says-us-ukraine-and-russia-officials-to-meet-in-uae-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423399\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy meets Trump, says US, Ukraine and Russia officials to meet in UAE | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says officials from Ukraine, Russia and the United States will hold trilateral \u2060meetings for the first time on Friday and Saturday as the US continues to push for an end to Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

After talks with US President Donald Trump in Davos on Thursday, Zelenskyy said that the terms of security guarantees for Ukraine had been finalised, and a deal was almost ready on economic recovery after the war, a \u200bkey element of Kyiv-backed proposals to push back on an earlier US plan seen as heavily favouring Moscow.<\/p>\n

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Zelenskyy described the negotiations scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi as the \u201cfirst trilateral meeting\u201d to be held among the countries. \u201cI think this is good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from Russia on the proposed talks.<\/p>\n

The US president described the meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart as \u201cgood\u201d, but called the effort to end the war launched by Russia an \u201congoing process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, US \u200denvoy \u200dSteve Witkoff said \u201ca lot of progress\u201d has been made in the long-running Russia-Ukraine talks and that negotiations are down to one last issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve got it down to one issue, and we have discussed iterations of that issue, and that means it\u2019s solvable,\u201d Witkoff told an audience at the World Economic Forum<\/a> (WEF) in the Swiss city of Davos on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf both sides want to solve this, we\u2019re going to get it solved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The US \u200denvoy said he and Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, would travel later in the day to the Russian capital, Moscow, where the Kremlin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to meet Witkoff.<\/p>\n

The US officials would then fly on to Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital, where talks would continue in \u201cmilitary to military\u201d working groups, he said.<\/p>\n

According to Zelenskyy, the UAE talks \u2013 spanning Friday and Saturday \u2013 will include the first trilateral meetings between US, Russian and Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n

Trump, Zelenskyy meet in Davos<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters after meeting Zelenskyy, Trump said his message \u2060to Putin is that the war in Ukraine has \u200bto \u200cend.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy, for his part, described the meeting with Trump as \u201cproductive and substantive\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe documents are now even better prepared,\u201d added Zelenskyy, who previously said he would only travel to Davos if there were the opportunity to sign an agreement with Trump on resolving the nearly four-year war, including with security guarantees and post-war reconstruction funding for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Addressing the WEF after his meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy made the case for Putin to face international prosecution and criticised European allies for failing to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the fourth year of the biggest war in Europe since World War II, and the man who started it is not only free, but he is fighting for his frozen money in Europe,\u201d said Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

\u2018Keep our eyes on the ball of Ukraine\u2019<\/p>\n

While it was unclear what the last-remaining sticking point referenced by Witkoff was, Zelenskyy said in December that the two main issues were the long-term fate of territory captured by Russia and areas still under Kyiv\u2019s control that Moscow is demanding, and who gets control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, under Russian occupation in southern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Trump made an oft-repeated claim on Wednesday that Putin and Zelenskyy were close to a deal. \u201cI believe they\u2019re at a point now where they can come together and get a deal done. And if they don\u2019t, they\u2019re stupid \u2013 that goes for both of them,\u201d he said after delivering a speech<\/a> to the annual meeting of global elites.<\/p>\n

The \u2060US has held talks separately with Russia, Ukraine and European leaders on various \u200ddrafts of a plan for ending the war, but no deal has yet been reached despite Trump\u2019s repeated \u200dpromises to \u2060clinch one.<\/p>\n

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte praised Trump\u2019s efforts to end the war but said Ukraine still needs military help as it continues to come under Russian missile and drone attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we need is to keep our eyes on the ball of Ukraine. Let\u2019s not drop that ball. And that means. Yes, great, peace talks. Fantastic. We will do everything to conclude them successfully, but that will not happen tomorrow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The talks come as Russian attacks this week have left most of the Ukrainian capital without electricity, with residents of 3,000 buildings in Kyiv without heat in sub-zero temperatures.<\/p>\n

Odesa Governor Oleh Kiper \u200dsaid a Russian overnight drone attack struck a residential building, killing a 17-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says officials from Ukraine, Russia and the United States will hold trilateral \u2060meetings for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,963,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-423399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}