{"id":11383,"date":"2025-11-30T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ukrainian-delegation-heads-to-u-s-for-peace-talks-after-lead-negotiators-exit\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T10:12:11","slug":"ukrainian-delegation-heads-to-u-s-for-peace-talks-after-lead-negotiators-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ukrainian-delegation-heads-to-u-s-for-peace-talks-after-lead-negotiators-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian delegation heads to U.S. for peace talks after lead negotiator&#8217;s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that a delegation headed by security council secretary Rustem Umerov was on its way to the United States to continue talks on an agreement to end Russia&rsquo;s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Umerov has been put in charge of the Ukrainian delegation after the previous lead negotiator, Zelenskyy&rsquo;s powerful chief of staff Andriy Yermak, resigned on Friday, hours after anti-corruption detectives searched his apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy said he expected that the results of previous meetings with the U.S. in Geneva, which took place last weekend, would now be &ldquo;hammered out&rdquo; on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. President Donald Trump&rsquo;s son-in-law Jared Kushner will meet Ukrainian officials on Sunday in Florida, a senior U.S. official told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The Geneva meetings allowed Ukraine to present a counter-offer to proposals laid out by U.S. Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll to leaders in Kyiv almost two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Rustem delivered a report today, and the task is clear: to swiftly and substantively work out the steps needed to end the war,&rdquo; Zelenskyy wrote on X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Ukraine is facing significant pressure from Washington to agree to the terms of a peace deal while Zelenskiy finds himself in the most difficult political and military situation since the early days of Russia&rsquo;s invasion in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Political blowback from a $100 million energy sector corruption scandal has seen two ministers and now the president&rsquo;s right-hand man ousted.<\/p>\n<p>Yermak told the New York Post hours after his resignation that he was &ldquo;going to the front&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am an honest and decent person,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is making incremental gains on the front line and Ukrainian cities suffer hours of blackouts every day due to a rolling bombardment of its power grid.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy has said Ukraine is in one of the most difficult moments in its history, but promised his people in a dramatic address last week that he would not betray the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"small-caps text-small text-serif\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">&copy; Thomson Reuters 2025.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Ukrainian delegation heads to U.S. for peace talks after lead negotiator&rsquo;s exit<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that a delegation headed by security council secretary Rustem Umerov was on its way to the United States to continue talks on an agreement to end Russia&rsquo;s war in Ukraine. Umerov has been put in charge of the Ukrainian delegation after the previous lead negotiator, Zelenskyy&rsquo;s powerful chief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ukrainian-delegation-heads-to-u-s-for-peace-talks-after-lead-negotiators-exit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Ukrainian delegation heads to U.S. for peace talks after lead negotiator&#8217;s exit&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}