Chief Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said in a brief statement that the meeting with Ukrainian and U.S. officials was “difficult but businesslike.”
The Ukraine team, now led by Rustem Umerov, is due to meet U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff in Florida on Sunday, a U.S. official said.
Referring to Ukraine as a “buffer between Russia and the rest of Europe,” Trump ruled out the possibility of membership in the military alliance for Kyiv.