Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to arrive at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, January 22, to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. European Pravda reports this, citing Axios and a Ukrainian official.
According to European Pravda, Axios reported that Zelenskyy plans to meet Trump in Switzerland while White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travel to Moscow for talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Axios says both meetings will focus on discussions of the U.S. “peace plan” aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. The United States is “close to an agreement” with Ukraine on the plan’s provisions, the outlet reports, while Russia has yet to publicly agree to it.
Axios also notes that Russia’s refusal to accept the 20-point plan is one of the reasons the White House did not want to sign a so-called “prosperity plan” for Ukraine during this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos.
Earlier, during his speech at the forum, Donald Trump said he would meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Davos and stated that the meeting was scheduled for Wednesday. However, Ukrainian presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn later told journalists that as of 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, the Ukrainian president was in Kyiv.
On January 20, Zelenskyy said that concrete results should be a prerequisite for any meeting with the U.S. side in Davos.