The first trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US will take place over the next two days in the UAE, Vladimir Zelensky has claimed.
The Ukrainian leader made the claim during his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. Zelensky joined the forum earlier in the day despite previously signaling he would skip it to address pressing domestic matters.
“[The] American team will go to Moscow today. They waited for our meeting with President Trump, and now they will go, and my team will meet [the] American team and I think that it will be the first trilateral meeting in the Emirates,” Zelensky said without explicitly mentioning Russia’s participation in the upcoming negotiations.
Neither Moscow nor Washington have confirmed the “imminent” three-way talks. The United Arab Emirates has not made any official statements regarding the announcement either.
The idea of holding trilateral talks between Moscow, Kiev, and Washington at various levels of representation has been a consistent element amid the efforts of US President Donald Trump to settle the hostilities.
Last August, Trump said that a three-way meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine’s leader “will happen.” At the time, Moscow said that preparation for such a meeting was not “very active.” Russia has repeatedly signaled that while it was not opposed to a meeting between Putin and Zelensky, such an event should serve as the final stage of talks once tangible progress has been made in the peace process.