Zelenskiy claims that once a truce is established, Ukraine is prepared to negotiate with Russia

Ukraine will be prepared to engage in any kind of dialogue with Russia when a ceasefire agreement is reached and the combat has ceased, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Tuesday.

A Ukrainian delegation meeting Western officials in London on Wednesday will be tasked with discussing a complete or partial ceasefire, the Ukrainian leader also informed reporters during a briefing.

In the Kyiv presidential office, Zelenskiy declared, “Following a ceasefire, we are prepared to sit down in any format to ensure that there are no dead ends.”

“It will not be possible to agree on everything quickly,” he cautioned, citing a number of extremely complicated topics, including land, security assurances, and Ukraine’s NATO military alliance membership.

According to him, any agreement would not recognize Moscow’s de facto sovereignty of the Crimean peninsula because doing so would violate the Ukrainian constitution. 2014 saw Russia take Crimea, which it subsequently annexed.

He said Ukraine would be willing to collaborate with the United States to restart the large nuclear power facility in Zaporizhzhia, which is under Russian occupation. But Washington has not made any such formal recommendation on it, he noted.

Officials from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Ukraine will meet for the London talks, which coincide with a flurry of diplomatic efforts spearheaded by the United States to find a solution to Russia’s war against Ukraine.

In a seemingly last-minute change of plans, a State Department official announced Tuesday that Washington’s Ukraine envoy General Keith Kellogg will attend the negotiations in London instead of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Later this week, Zelenskiy said he would be delighted to see U.S. President Donald Trump when they join other world leaders at Pope Francis’s funeral.

In addition to meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Zelenskiy said Ukraine would increase its diplomatic outreach this week and meet with the leaders of Spain, Poland, and the Czech Republic.