Zelenskyy’s press convention with Trump’s Ukraine envoy cancelled at US request

A information convention following talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy was cancelled on Thursday on the request of US officers, a Kyiv official stated.

The scheduled media briefing by Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and retired US Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s particular envoy to Ukraine and Russia, was cancelled following their assembly, based on Ukrainian presidential spokesman Serhii Nikiforov.

Kellogg’s go to to Kyiv got here amid escalating tensions between Trump and Zelenskyy, straining their private relations and elevating additional uncertainty about the way forward for US assist for Ukraine’s warfare effort.

Nikiforov gave no different motive apart from that the cancellation was in accordance with US needs. 

The US delegation made no speedy remark.

Initially of the assembly, photographers and video journalists have been briefly allowed into the room, capturing Zelenskyy and Kellogg shaking arms earlier than taking their seats throughout from one another at a desk within the presidential workplace in Kyiv.  

They have been anticipated to debate Trump’s proposed efforts to convey an finish to the practically three-year-long warfare.

(With AP inputs)

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