Rubio and Witkoff to meet Ukrainian negotiators on peace talks in Florida
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to meet with Ukrainian negotiators in Florida on Sunday to lay the groundwork for the latest peace talks in Geneva and work out the remaining details of the agreement reached last week.
The Florida meeting took place after Ukraine’s top negotiator Andriy Yermak resigned on Friday after anti-corruption agencies raided his home. There is Ukraine chaotic in an alleged $100 million kickback corruption scheme linked to state-owned nuclear energy company Energoatom.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, “Dialogue based on the Geneva points will continue. Diplomacy continues to be active. The American side is taking a constructive approach and it is possible to detail steps to determine how to bring the war to an honorable end in the coming days.” he said. “The Ukrainian delegation has the necessary directives and I expect the men to work in line with Ukraine’s clear priorities.”
Zelenskyy wrote in
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov participates in a session of the Coalition of Volunteers during NATO defense ministers meetings in Brussels on April 10, 2025. (Omer Havana/Getty)
A US official told Fox News on Tuesday that Kiev peace agreement reachedOnly minor points still need to be resolved.
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Minister of Justice Herman Halushchenko and Minister of Energy Svitlana Grynchuk submitted their resignations on November 12, 2025. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images; Andrii Nesterenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Witkoff is expected to travel to Moscow this week to discuss the updated peace framework, which reportedly has 19 points instead of the original 28, which has been criticized by European leaders as being in favor of the Kremlin.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested Moscow may refuse The White House’s framework for the latest Ukraine peace deal does not uphold the “spirit and letter” of the agreements reached between Trump and Vladimir Putin at the August Alaska summit.
He warned that the situation would be “fundamentally different” if the conditions for “fundamental understandings” were to “disappear”.
In this photo published by the Press Service of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs via the telegram channel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens to North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui during their meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea on Thursday, October 19, 2023. (Press Service of the Russian Foreign Ministry via AP telegram channel)
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Russia maintained its maximalist demands in the negotiations; He insisted that Ukraine should be barred from joining NATO and give up the rest of the Donbas region as part of any agreement.
The Kremlin continues its drone and missile attacks even as negotiations continue to progress. Last week alone, Russia fired nearly 1,400 attack aircraft, 1,100 guided aerial bombs and 66 missiles at Ukraine, Zelenskyy said on Sunday.
