Washington will present Moscow with "five principles for Ukrainian settlement."
24-07-2026 17:22 Politics
1in.am Ukrainian President Zelensky will visit the United States next week. This was reported by Mikhail Komandovsky, a correspondent for Deutsche Welle in the U.S., as stated by the Ukrainian Unian news agency. Zelensky will "attend Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral on July 28, and may also have a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump." The format of that meeting "has not yet been fully agreed upon; the parties are still clarifying whether it will take place within the framework of the mourning ceremony, a private meeting, or a visit to the White House."
The Ukrainian media also emphasized that U.S. President Trump posted a segment of an interview with Zelensky conducted by his supporter journalist Lori Loughlin on his personal social media platform, where the Ukrainian president stated that the "turning point" in his relationship with Trump was a brief meeting in the Vatican in April 2025. It is assumed that if the U.S. president shared this segment of Zelensky's interview, then he shares the assessment of a "radical break" in their relationship.
It is noteworthy that the information about Zelensky's visit to the U.S. and the likelihood of any format of a meeting with Donald Trump followed the meeting between Secretary of State Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in the capital of the Philippines, during which the latter focused on the "absolutely unacceptable" nature of American arms supplies to Ukraine. According to Reuters, Rubio responded that the U.S. "will continue to sell weapons to NATO member countries."
In essence, Washington has rejected Moscow's demand to cease the supply of American weapons to Ukraine because NATO countries are acquiring them to deliver to Ukraine. A commentator from the "New York Times" presented the situation as if Lavrov told Rubio in Manila: "We will continue to shoot at people, but don't give them a bulletproof vest to defend themselves."
If the information from DW's Washington correspondent is accurate, then the Trump-Zelensky meeting after the Rubio-Lavrov brief negotiations means only one thing: Russian-American negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement are unlikely to take place in the foreseeable future. There are two opportunities for a meeting between the U.S. and Russian presidents before the end of the year: the G20 and the Asia-Pacific summit.
As understood, Putin will not participate in the G20 summit in Miami. His participation in the second equally important conference has already been officially confirmed. But will he meet with Trump in that context? Moscow is clearly striving to restore the "spirit" of Anchorage. Meanwhile, CIA Director John Ratcliffe will visit Moscow. There is unofficial information that "next week, the U.S. president's special representative Witkoff will make an undisclosed visit to Moscow and present five principles for the Ukrainian settlement."
* This text was automatically translated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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