Ukrainian President stated that a long-awaited document on U.S. security guarantees is “100% ready” for signing, with Kyiv now waiting for its American partners to confirm the date and location before the agreement proceeds to ratification in both the U.S. Congress and the Ukrainian parliament.
“For us, security guarantees are first and foremost security assurances from the United States. The document is 100% ready,” Zelenskyy said Sunday at a joint press conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, alongside the presidents of Lithuania and Poland, according to a from Reuters.
Zelenskyy reiterated at the press conference that Ukraine views membership in the as another core security guarantee and is aiming to join the bloc by 2027, the Ukrainian president’s office said in a statement on its website.
His remarks follow two days of held over the weekend involving Ukraine, Russia, and the United States.
Zelenskyy said on X that the discussions, which involved political and military representatives from all three sides, were “constructive” and focused on potential parameters for ending his country’s war with Russia.
The talks in the United Arab Emirates followed a meeting in Moscow on Thursday between , U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and head of the Federal Acquisition Service Josh Gruenbaum.
Putin aide Yuri Ushakov said the “extremely frank” discussions lasted roughly four hours and included U.S. officials updating Moscow on their recent conversations with Ukrainian and European leaders, according to a summary of the meeting from the Kremlin.
Territorial issues remain a key obstacle in the negotiations, with to relinquish parts of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region that Russian forces do not fully control.
U.S. officials that negotiations examined the full range of unresolved issues, from Russia’s territorial demands in the Donbas to control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and potential steps to prevent a return to fighting.
Another U.S. official told the outlet a second round of talks is scheduled to take place on Feb. 1.