Zelensky: US mediators are coming to Kyiv on Sunday

Ukraine war

Zelensky: US mediators are coming to Kyiv on Sunday

Recently, negotiations for an end to the Ukraine war under US mediation were on hold. Now President Zelenskyj is announcing a visit to Kiev by US mediators, who have so far only been to Moscow.

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has a visit from US mediators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Sunday in Kyiv announced. It was discussed today that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner only… Moscow will visit and travel to Kiev on Sunday, Zelensky said in a video message. The Ukraine prepare for it.

US President Donald Trump When asked by reporters at the White House, he confirmed that he had sent his two negotiators. He did not give any specific dates. They would bring a proposal to end the Ukraine war, Trump said – in this case too, without going into detail. “We sent them there to see if we could achieve something.” As with his country’s previous mediation efforts in the war, Trump was optimistic that this could succeed. However, a real breakthrough has not yet been achieved.

Zelensky announced that Kiev, “as it has been during previous diplomatic visits from the US side,” ensures the normal operation of Russian airspace for the visit. There will be no air strikes from the Ukrainian side, Russia had to react in a mirror image, he said.

There had previously been unconfirmed reports that US special envoy Witkoff and US President Trump’s son-in-law Kushner were planning to travel to Moscow on Saturday and to Kiev on Sunday.

The New York Times, citing officials familiar with the diplomatic effort, reported that U.S. mediators were expected to meet Russia’s president first Vladimir Putin and then would meet Zelensky. Negotiations about the trip dragged on for weeks. The USA had insisted that the Ukrainians temporarily stop their drone attacks on Moscow and Russia’s energy infrastructure while Witkoff and Kushner are in Russia. The Russians must stop their missile attacks on Kyiv, the newspaper wrote.

According to the Russian state news agency Tass, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded in the afternoon when asked when Witkoff and Kushner were expected in Moscow: “I will not announce anything. When these contacts take place, we will inform about it.”

Witkoff and Kushner are responsible in the Trump administration for efforts to end Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, which has been ongoing for more than four and a half years. In the past few months, however, the talks have been on hold because Washington his focus on the war against the Iran directed. The US mediators have visited Moscow several times since 2025 but have never been to Kiev for their mediation efforts. Washington last sat at the table as a mediator in direct negotiations between Moscow and Kiev in Switzerland in February.