U.S. and Ukrainian officials will meet again Saturday to discuss peace plan, they say

President Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials said Friday they will meet for a third day of talks after making progress on creating a security framework for postwar ukraineand urge Russia to commit to peace.

The officials, who met for a second day in Florida on Friday, issued a joint statement that offered broad strokes of the progress they say has been made as Trump pressures kyiv and Moscow to accept a U.S.-brokered proposal to end nearly four years of war.

“Both sides agreed that real progress toward any agreement depends on Russia’s willingness to show a serious commitment to long-term peace, including steps toward reducing tensions and ending the killings,” the statement read. “The parties also separately reviewed the future prosperity agenda that aims to support Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction, joint U.S.-Ukraine economic initiatives, and long-term recovery projects.”

The Kremlin had no immediate comment on the latest talks between the United States and Ukraine on Friday.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner talk in Florida with Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s top negotiator. follow the discussions between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US envoys in the Kremlin on Tuesday.

Yuri Ushakov, a senior Putin official, he told reporters below At Tuesday’s meeting the conversations were “constructive, very useful and substantive.”

“The territorial question, naturally, is the most important for us and also for the Americans. A compromise option has not yet been found, but some American developments seem more or less acceptable, but they need to be discussed,” he said earlier this week. “Some of the formulations that were proposed to us seem acceptable to us.”

However, Ushakov also added: “We are no closer to resolving the crisis in Ukraine and there is still a lot of work to be done.”

Ushakov said that Moscow was given four more documents in addition to the original proposal of 28 points that the Trump administration presented last month, but did not elaborate on the contents of those documents.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who participated in the talks last weekend with Ukrainian officials in Florida, had said those talks were “another very productive session,” but “there are a lot of moving parts.”

Trump had told reporters after Sunday’s talks: “I think there’s a good chance we can reach a deal.”

The original US-backed project peace proposal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine that was unveiled last month has undergone changes after some criticized the initial plan for being too pro-Russia, Trump told reporters over the weekend. One provision that drew strong pushback from U.S. and European officials called for Ukraine to cede to Russia the territory it currently controls in Donetsk.

“They’re making concessions,” Trump said of the Russians. “These are big concessions. They stop fighting and don’t take any more land.”

Friday’s session with U.S. and Ukrainian officials took place at the Shell Bay Club in Hallandale Beach, Florida, a private high-end golf and lifestyle destination owned by Witkoff’s real estate development company.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country’s delegation in Florida wanted to hear from the American side about the talks in the Kremlin.

Zelenskyy, as well as European leaders who support him, have repeatedly accused Putin of stalling peace talks while the Russian military tries to press ahead with its invasion. Zelenskyy said in a video speech Thursday night that officials wanted to know “what other pretexts Putin has invented to prolong the war and put pressure on Ukraine.”

Speaking to Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin on Friday, Ushakov praised Kushner for playing a potentially important role in ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“If any plan leading to an agreement is put into writing, it will be Mr. Kushner’s pen that will lead the way,” Ushakov said.

The flattering comments about Kushner from the senior Russian official come as Putin has sought to sow division between Trump and Ukraine and Europe at a time when Trump’s impatience with the conflict is growing. Putin, who paid a state visit to India on Thursdaytold an Indian media outlet that his five-hour talks this week with Witkoff and Kushner were “necessary” and “useful” but that some proposals were unacceptable.

Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, was a senior adviser to Trump during his first term and was the president’s point person in developing the Abraham Accords, which formalized trade and diplomatic ties between Israel and a trio of Arab nations.

Kushner played a more informal role in Trump’s second presidency, but helped Witkoff close ceasefire and hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas this fall. Trump again turned to Kushner to partner with Witkoff to try to find an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.