Donbas will be the main topic! Volodymyr Zelensky announced a new round of talks with the participation of the US to end

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a new round of talks with the participation of the US to end the war, which will be held on February 17 or 18. Zelensky said this in an interview with Bloomberg.

The Ukrainian president said that he had accepted the US proposal to hold another round of talks, but at the same time he did not know whether the Russian delegation would join them.

The agenda of this meeting will be the issue of territories - first of all, the US proposal to create a free economic zone in Donbas. According to Zelensky, both sides of the conflict are skeptical of this option.

"None of the parties supports the idea of creating a free economic zone - neither the Russians nor us. We have different opinions on this issue. And we agreed on the following: let's return to this issue at the next meeting with an idea of what it could look like," the president said.

Zelensky insists that the United States clearly state its position on who will control the buffer zone in eastern Ukraine.

"If this is our territory - and this is our territory - then the country to which it belongs should govern it," Zelensky stressed.

The next round of negotiations will also include bilateral consultations between Ukraine and the United States. According to the head of state, the negotiating teams may consider proposals for post-war planning and focus on economic issues. For this purpose, the delegation will include Economy Minister Oleksiy Sobolev. He will discuss with the Americans the “Prosperity Package” of Ukraine.

As we will recall, on Saturday Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the United States is for the first time proposing to hold another round of trilateral negotiations to settle Russia's war against Ukraine on its territory.

Zelensky also said that the United States is proposing to end Russia's war against Ukraine by the beginning of the summer, since later they will have another priority - the congressional elections.

In addition, the president confirmed that during the negotiations in Abu Dhabi on February 4-5, it had not yet been possible to resolve the territorial issue and the issue of the management of the ZAPP.

During the negotiations on February 4-5, delegations from the United States of America, Ukraine and the Russian Federation discussed a number of unresolved issues, including methods of implementing a ceasefire and monitoring the cessation of hostilities.