Zelenskyy: "U.S.-Russia-Ukraine Trilateral Talks Should Be Held Nov. 6-10"; Russia Cautious

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said trilateral peace talks involving the United States, Russia and Ukraine should be held from November 6 to 10. Russia, however, struck a cautious note, saying no specific dates had been finalized.

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According to the Ukrainian outlet The Kyiv Independent on October 28 local time, Zelenskyy held a joint press conference after meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten in The Hague, Netherlands, that day. “The trilateral talks should be held by the end of November and, if possible, between November 6 and 10,” he said.

Zelenskyy said he was awaiting a response from the United States and expected the meeting schedule to be finalized around November 4, shortly after the U.S. midterm elections. Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is being widely discussed as a possible venue, he said, though the location could change depending on the situation in the Middle East.

Russia maintained a cautious stance on the timing of the talks. Yuri Ushakov, the Kremlin’s foreign policy aide, said in an interview with Russian broadcaster Vesti TV that day, “No specific date has been proposed yet,” adding, “November 10 or thereabouts has been mentioned, but the exact schedule has not been finalized.”

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also said the schedule would be announced once it had been set. Responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s comment the previous day that the trilateral talks would take place “soon,” he said, “‘Soon’ is a flexible term.”

Earlier, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre held separate phone calls on October 27 with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy. The Kremlin said they discussed ways to end the war in Ukraine and welcomed an agreement to resume trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi in early November.

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