The Ukrainian side will be represented by Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Presidential Office; Rustem Umerov, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service; Davyd Arakhamia, leader of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada; and Serhiy Kyslytsya, deputy head of the Presidential Office.
According to Zelensky, the discussions will cover various options for a ceasefire in specific spheres. "We discuss everything. Both the sea and energy. What could be realistic or more realistic, I am not ready to say yet... I don't want, so to speak, to say something and then Russia, as always, does the opposite," the president said.
A senior US official told the Ukrainian service of Voice of America that the meeting will discuss a new "comprehensive" plan covering "all aspects of the conflict and aimed at putting an end to the war." The parameters of the proposal were not specified.
The White House said national security advisers from the "E3 group" countries - France, Germany and the United Kingdom - as well as representatives of the European Union and NATO will join the participants. According to Zelensky, Ukrainian negotiators plan to discuss air defense with the Americans and accelerated financing with the Europeans.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow has "no current plans for contacts" on ending the war with Ukraine with US mediation. He accused Kyiv of halting trilateral meetings on a settlement and stressed that Russia is open to such contacts.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the war has reached a "strategic dead end," and prospects for ending it diplomatically are currently "not in sight."
The talks will take place amid intensified Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities. According to the regional military administration, 22 people were killed, including five children, in a missile strike on Pryluky in the Chernihiv region. Another 54 people were injured, seven of them children. Zelensky, together with UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, visited Pryluky and paid tribute to the victims.