Rubio, Witkoff meet with Ukrainian officials in push to finalize deal after Zelenskyy's top negotiator resigns

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to conscionable Ukrainian negotiators Sunday successful Florida to physique connected the caller bid talks successful Geneva, and enactment done the remaining details of the statement reached past week.

The Florida gathering comes aft Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s apical negotiator, resigned Friday aft anti-corruption agencies raided his home. Ukraine has been embroiled successful an alleged $100 cardinal kickback corruption strategy linked to the state-owned atomic powerfulness institution Energoatom. 

"The dialog based connected the Geneva points volition continue. Diplomacy remains active. The American broadside is demonstrating a constructive approach, and successful the coming days it is feasible to soma retired the steps to find however to bring the warfare to a dignified end," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. "The Ukrainian delegation has the indispensable directives, and I expect the guys to enactment successful accordance with wide Ukrainian priorities."

Zelenskyy wrote connected X that Rustem Umerov, the caput of the Ukrainian delegation and caput of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, would pb efforts to outline the steps to extremity the warfare and to hammer retired the remaining elements of the bid framework.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov attends a league of the Coalition of the Willing during NATO defence ministers’ meetings successful Brussels connected April 10, 2025. (Omar Havana/Getty)

A U.S. authoritative told Fox News Tuesday that Kyiv agreed to a bid deal, with lone insignificant points inactive to beryllium resolved.

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Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko and Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk submitted their resignations connected Nov. 12, 2025. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images; Andrii Nesterenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

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Witkoff is expected to question to Moscow this week to sermon the updated bid model that reportedly stands astatine 19 points alternatively of the archetypal 28, which was criticized by European leaders arsenic excessively favorable to the Kremlin.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested Moscow could cull the White House’s latest Ukraine bid woody model if it does not uphold the "spirit and letter" of the understandings reached astatine the August Alaska acme betwixt Trump and Vladimir Putin.

He warned that if the presumption of the "key understandings" are "extinguished" past the concern would go "fundamentally different."

In this photograph released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via their telegram channel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens to North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui during their talks successful Pyongyang, North Korea, connected Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023.  (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service telegram transmission via AP)

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Russia has maintained its maximalist demands successful negotiations, insisting Ukraine beryllium barred from joining NATO and required to springiness up the remainder of the Donbas portion arsenic portion of immoderate agreement.

The Kremlin has kept up its drone and rocket barrages adjacent arsenic negotiations proceed to determination forward. Zelenskyy said Sunday that implicit the past week alone, Russia fired astir 1,400 onslaught drones, 1,100 guided aerial bombs and 66 missiles astatine Ukraine.