President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged on Thursday that Ukraine was ready to work quickly to produce a strong agreement on investments and security with the United States, saying a meeting with US envoy Keith Kellogg \u201crestores hope\u201d for success.
\n\u201cGeneral Kellogg, a meeting which restores hope. We need strong agreements that will really work. I gave instructions to work fast and in a very, very even-handed fashion,\u201d Zelensky said in his nightly video address.
\n\u201cThe details of the agreement are important. The better the details are drafted, the better the result.\u201d
\nThe meeting with Kellogg took place a day after Zelensky and US President Donald Trump exchanged barbs as US-Russian talks got underway on ending the three-year-old war pitting Kyiv against Moscow. Ukraine was not invited to the talks.
\nAfter the meeting with Kellogg, Zelensky said on social media platform X that Ukraine had to \u201censure that peace is strong and lasting \u2014 so that Russia can never return with war.\u201d
\n\u201cUkraine is ready for a strong, effective investment and security agreement with the President of the United States. We have proposed the fastest and most constructive way to achieve results. Our team is ready to work 24\/7.\u201d
\nThe talks with Kellogg also followed Ukraine\u2019s rejection of an initial US proposal to develop rare earths in Ukraine.
\nIn his comments on X, Zelensky also said his discussion with Kellogg focused on the battlefield situation, the security guarantees that Ukraine is seeking and the return of prisoners of war.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s important for us \u2014 and for the entire free world \u2014 that American strength is felt,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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