FM: Meeting of US-Ukraine negotiating teams expected soon

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has announced that a meeting between the negotiating teams of Ukraine and the United States on resolving the Russian-Ukrainian war is expected in the near future.

He made the remark at a press conference in Kyiv on November 27, European Pravda reports.

Sybiha was asked at a press conference in Kyiv on November 27 to comment on an earlier announcement by Andrii Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, that US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll is set to travel to Kyiv this week to finalise steps aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

Earlier, the Head of the Presidential Office, Andrii Yermak, said that this week U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll would arrive in Kyiv to finalise steps toward ending the war. Sybiha was asked to comment on this statement.

“A meeting of the negotiating teams should be expected,” the minister noted.

He stressed that the Ukrainian side is counting on concrete results and is interested in contacts at the highest level — a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump. According to Sybiha, some of the most sensitive issues can only be discussed at the level of the two leaders.

On November 25, Trump said he instructed Special Envoy Witkoff and US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to finalise the terms of the "peace deal" between Russia and Ukraine. Witkoff will travel to Moscow, and if the process reaches the final stage, Trump will meet with Putin and Zelenskyy.

NYT also reported earlier that during his visit to Kyiv to hand over the 28-point "peace plan", Driscoll warned European diplomats that the missile threat from Russia extends beyond Ukraine, thereby promoting a swift settlement of the war.

By Khagan Isayev