The foreign ministers of the UK, France, Germany and Ukraine postponed a meeting scheduled for Wednesday after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided not to travel to London, Sky News television reported.
Instead, the TV station said, a meeting between senior officials from the five countries will take place. Sky News notes that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga, who is still expected to be in London, is likely to hold a bilateral meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
During the meeting in London, Washington initially expected a response from Kiev to US President Donald Trump's final proposal on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, Axios reported citing its sources.
According to the report, the one-page "final offer" handed over to Ukraine during a meeting on 17 April in Paris attended by delegations from the United Kingdom, the United States and France. The document contains a provision according to which Volodymyr Zelensky will have to make "big concessions".
According to Axios, the US side "expects Ukraine to respond to a peace framework that includes U.S. recognition of Crimea as part of Russia and unofficial recognition of Russian control over almost all areas" controlled by Moscow. The sources also said that Ukrainian emissaries want to "to discuss a 30-day ceasefire rather than Trump's framework for a peace plan during the London talks".
Ahead of the UK, US and EU-Ukraine talks in London, the Daily Telegraph reported that the US will present its seven-point plan for a Ukrainian settlement, which includes provisions for recognising Crimea as part of Russia and lifting all US sanctions, but contains no clear security guarantees for Ukraine.
The newspaper reported that the US special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, was due to unveil the plan in London. Afterwards, the US President's special envoy Steven Witkoff was to travel to Moscow to propose it to the Russian government.
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