KYIV: A second round of talks between Russian, Ukrainian and US officials on a US-drafted plan to end the nearly four-year Ukraine war will begin on Wednesday, instead of on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Zelensky did not give a reason for the delay.
The announcement comes a day after one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top envoys held surprise talks with US officials in Florida without Ukraine.
“The dates for the next trilateral meetings have been set — February 4 and 5 in Abu Dhabi,” Zelensky said in a post on X.
Neither the Kremlin nor the United States have confirmed the new dates.
The United States says it is close to brokering a deal to end the conflict — Europe’s deadliest since World War II — but neither Moscow nor Kyiv have been able to find a compromise on the key issue of territory.