Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expects the next round of trilateral talks on ending the war to pave the way for a leaders’ meeting after speaking by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday (25 February).
Writing on X after the call, Zelenskyy said the two sides discussed preparations for a bilateral meeting in Geneva and a broader trilateral session scheduled for early March. He said Kyiv hopes that meeting “will create an opportunity to move talks to the leaders’ level”, adding that Trump supports the proposed sequence.
Zelenskyy said U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner also took part in the call.
He thanked Washington for its continued involvement in negotiations and for supplying air defence missiles, which he said had helped Ukraine endure what he described as its most difficult winter since the full-scale invasion.
“We greatly value” U.S. support, he wrote, saying the assistance was helping to protect lives amid ongoing missile attacks.
Earlier during the day U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the conflict “does not have a military solution” and insisted that only negotiations can bring it to an end.
“The administration has continued to increase pressure on Moscow,” Rubio said, citing additional sanctions on Russian oil giant Rosneft and continued U.S. weapons sales to Kyiv.
“We don’t sell weapons to Russia and we don’t sanction Ukraine,” he stated.
Rubio argued that the United States is uniquely positioned to broker talks, saying it is “the only country or entity on the planet” able to bring Russian and Ukrainian negotiators to the same table. He added that while President Trump’s patience is not “infinite”, Washington does not want to abandon diplomatic efforts or its role at the United Nations.
Trump, Rubio said, views the conflict as a “stupid and senseless war” and is determined to pursue a negotiated settlement, though he expressed frustration that the fighting has not yet been brought to a close.
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