Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the 16th (local time) that a Ukrainian negotiating team is traveling to the United States to discuss security guarantees and a postwar recovery plan.
According to Reuters that day, President Zelenskyy said at a news conference in the capital, Kyiv, that he hopes these documents will be signed at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, next week, and stated accordingly.
Foreign media expect U.S. President Donald Trump and President Zelenskyy to meet at the WEF on the 19th.
Zelenskyy explained that Ukraine's work on U.S. security guarantees to prevent further Russian attacks and on a reconstruction support plan to cover the massive postwar recovery expense has been completed.
At the same time, he said, "The Ukrainian delegation hopes to hear Russia's position in the United States regarding efforts to end the war."
The day before, President Trump had singled out President Zelenskyy as an obstacle to cease-fire talks. In response, Zelenskyy criticized Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy facilities and reiterated that it is Russia that is delaying cease-fire efforts. "Their interest is not an agreement but the destruction of Ukraine," he said.
Zelenskyy also mentioned that air-defense system missiles provided by allies were temporarily depleted and stressed that additional support is urgent. He said, "Until this morning there were a few air-defense systems without missiles, but today we secured the missiles that were lacking."