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Ukrainian negotiators to head to London this week

17 March 2025 17:34 (UTC +04:00)

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has ordered his Defence Minister Rustem Umerov to put together a team of negotiators who will “interact with partners on all the details of the security system that Ukraine needs, and on implementing decisions being approved at military-political level,” APA reports citing BBC.

In the statement posted on social media, he says the team will travel to London this week to take part in a meeting of “military representatives.”

Military chiefs from the UK's "coalition of the willing" are expected to meet in London on Thursday to discuss plans for a peacekeeping force in Ukraine if a ceasefire is agreed. But it's not clear if Zelensky is referring to the same meeting.

Zelensky also says he has met Umerov and the newly appointed Chief of the General Staff Andriy Hnatov to discuss “the situation on the frontline and also interaction with partners on security guarantees for Ukraine.”