Trilateral meeting postponed due to situation around Iran – Zelenskyy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that the trilateral meeting planned for this week has been postponed.

“I held a meeting with our negotiating team. It is important that we are in communication with the American side virtually 24/7. At the moment, the partners’ priority and all attention are focused on the situation around Iran, and because of this the meeting that had been planned for this week is being postponed at the proposal of the American side. However, Ukraine is ready for a meeting at any moment, in a format that can help and that will be realistic in terms of ending the war,” he said on X.

Zelenskyy instructed the team to communicate with the United States regarding joint work on drone protection and readiness for trilateral negotiations.

“The team reported on the plans of the Russian side, as far as it is known to us, primarily thanks to our intelligence services. I instructed the team to once again communicate with the American negotiators in order, first, to reiterate our readiness for strategic joint work for security and, in particular, protection against strike drones, and second, to once again confirm our readiness to work substantively toward ending Russia’s war against Ukraine,” the President noted.

He also noted that the Russian Federation is trying to turn the Iranian regime's strikes into a second front in the war against Ukraine and the entire West.

“We see that the Russians are now trying to manipulate the situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region in favor of their aggression, and also to effectively turn the Iranian regime’s strikes against its neighbors and American bases into a second front of Russia’s war against Ukraine and, more broadly, against the entire West. This must not be allowed. Evil must not be given opportunities for coordination, but the protection of life must be clearly coordinated,” Zelenskyy emphasized.