Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet US Vice-President J.D. Vance on Friday at the Munich Security Conference, where they are set to discuss Washington’s push for an end to the three-year war with Russia.
US President Donald Trump will also send his special envoy Keith Kellogg, who is tasked with drawing up a proposal to halt the fighting, to Ukraine a week later, a source in the Ukrainian presidency told Agence France-Presse.
Trump is pushing for a swift end to the war, while Zelensky is calling for tough security guarantees from Washington as part of any deal with Russia.
Kyiv fears that any settlement that does not include hard military commitments – such as Nato membership or the deployment of peacekeeping troops – will just allow the Kremlin time to regroup and rearm for a fresh attack.
Zelensky’s spokesman Sergiy Nikiforov told Agence France-Presse the meeting with Vance would take place on Friday on the sidelines of the Munich conference.
Meanwhile a source in the Ukrainian president’s office said Kellogg would arrive in Ukraine on February 20.
