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WASHINGTON—Ukrainian officials are holding high-level talks with the incoming Trump administration, seeking to narrow wide differences on achieving a settlement of Kyiv’s war with Russia even before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
A top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meet Wednesday with Keith Kellogg, Trump’s choice as special envoy for Russia and Ukraine, and Mike Waltz, the incoming national security adviser, according to a Trump transition official and several people familiar with the discussions.
Kellogg has signaled support for the Biden administration’s efforts to rush weapons to Ukraine, saying it will give Trump leverage with Moscow in negotiating a settlement. But the Trump team has shown little interest in offering Ukraine membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which Zelensky has said he considers a vital security guarantee against future Russian aggression.
Andriy Yermak, Zelensky’s closest adviser, is visiting Washington to forge relationships with Trump aides, according to people familiar with the planning. He met with the incoming White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, in Florida earlier Wednesday. Worn down by waging the nearly three-year war against Russia, Ukraine plans to communicate its readiness for peace.
“But that needs to be a sustainable peace,” said a person familiar with Kyiv’s thinking. “An unstable, temporary peace doesn’t serve U.S. or Ukrainian interests.”
Zelensky has recently signaled Ukraine could agree to a cease-fire if Ukraine were permitted to join NATO. Kyiv would seek to win back Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia through diplomatic pressure, he said, rather than force, as he has long insisted.
Zelensky said NATO membership would need to be offered to unoccupied parts of Ukraine for Kyiv to consider ending what he called the “hot phase of the war.” While Ukraine would continue to claim the whole of its territory, Zelensky suggested in an interview on Sky News last week that Kyiv would seek to “get them back in a diplomatic way.”
Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Tuesday that Kyiv would reject any security guarantees other than NATO membership. “We won’t accept any alternatives, surrogates or substitutes,” Sybiha wrote, in a letter to the 32 members of NATO.