Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian ambassador, announced on Saturday that he was traveling to Miami for another round of negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine.
Teams from Ukraine and Europe were also present in the sunny American city for the negotiations, which were facilitated by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, and Steve Witkoff, his envoy.
“On the way to Miami,” Dmitriev wrote in an X post, adding a pigeon emoji and attaching a short video of a morning sun shining through the clouds on a beach with palms.
“As warmongers keep working overtime to undermine the US peace plan for Ukraine, I remembered this video from my previous visit light breaking through the storm clouds,” he added.
The participation of Russia and Europe in the negotiations is an improvement over a previous phase in which the United States conducted separate negotiations with each side in various locations.
However, given the ongoing tension between the two sides, it is unlikely that Dmitriev will have direct discussions with Ukrainian and European officials.
Moscow, which dispatched soldiers into Ukraine in February 2022, claims that European participation in the negotiations will only impede the process and frequently portrays the leaders of the continent as being in favor of war.
