Two of the top Ukrainian security officials were set to regroup on Wednesday in Brussels with several European counterparts to discuss the outcomes of Tuesday’s U.S.-Russia meeting in Moscow, the Ukrainian presidential office said in a statement.
Rustem Umerov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and Andrii Hnatov, chief of the General Staff, were expected to join those talks in Belgium, which would follow a day after top U.S. officials held a high-stakes sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference with Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheal Martin (not pictured) following their meeting during his visit to Dublin on December 2, 2025.
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“This is our ongoing coordination with partners, and we ensure that the negotiation process is fully active,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday on social media.
After their meetings in Brussels, Umerov Hnatov were expected to begin preparations for a meeting with envoys of the Trump administration, Zelenskyy said.
The sit-down in Moscow followed a series of meetings between top U.S. and Ukrainian officials, during which the parties sought to revise the original peace-plan proposal presented by the Trump administration to Ukraine last month. Witkoff and other top U.S. officials — including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — met on Sunday in Florida with a Ukrainian delegation to attempt to find a deal that Ukraine and Russia might both accept to end the war.
The Kremlin is seen through Christmas decorations on the bank of the Moskva river in downtown Moscow on December 2, 2025.
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Witkoff and Kushner on Tuesday conveyed the outcomes of that meeting to Putin on Tuesday. None of the parties involved in the negotiations has detailed the state of the proposal.
The Kremlin’s top foreign policy aide said Tuesday’s hourslong talks in Moscow had been “useful” but added that “no compromise plan” had been found yet on the toughest issues.
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