Zelenskiy’s Top Envoy Arrives in US to Renew Stalled Peace Talks
Firefighters work at the site of a drone strike on a school in Sumy, Ukraine on May 6.
Photographer: Pavlo Zarva/Kordon.Media/Global Images Ukraine/Getty ImagesUkraine’s chief negotiator Rustem Umerov arrived in the US for meetings with President Donald Trump’s envoys in a bid to reinvigorate stalled peace talks with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
The new outreach comes as US-brokered peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine have been paused. The US is embroiled in a war in the Middle East, where a standoff with Iran has triggered spikes in energy prices and fears in Kyiv of more difficulties in procuring arms and ammunition from Western backers.