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Ukrainian person Volodymyr Zelenskyy volition conscionable with apical Pentagon officials successful Kyiv connected Thursday (November 20, 2025), his bureau said, arsenic details look of a U.S. program to extremity the warfare with Moscow connected presumption favourable to the Kremlin.
The gathering volition instrumentality spot a time aft Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff skipped a gathering with Mr. Zelenskyy successful Turkey, successful a stroke to Kyiv’s hopes to reinvigorate diplomacy and re-engage Washington successful pressuring Russia to halt its invasion.
It besides comes a time aft a Russian onslaught killed astatine slightest 26 radical successful 1 of Moscow’s deadliest attacks connected Ukraine this year.
A Pentagon delegation, headed by U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, arrived successful Kyiv connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025).
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko met Driscoll connected Thursday (November 20, 2025), calling the sojourn an accidental for the US officials “assess the concern connected the crushed and to witnesser firsthand the consequences of Russian aggression”.
Zelenskyy’s adjutant Dmytro Lytvyn told journalists the Ukrainian person plans to conscionable them.
The delegation met Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmygal connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025) evening.
U.S. officials person seldom visited Ukraine since President Donald Trump returned to bureau successful January.
U.S. media person reported that Washington and Moscow person been secretly moving connected a program to extremity the astir four-year war, triggered by Russia’s 2022 invasion.
A root acquainted with the draught proposals told AFP the program would necessitate Kyiv to cede onshore and chopped the size of its service by much than fractional — amounting to capitulation.
The Kremlin said it had thing to accidental astir the reports.
Washington and Kyiv person not publically commented connected the proposals.
