Trump aides to meet with top Ukrainian negotiator Thursday in Miami for more Russia-Ukraine peace talks, AP source says.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine is intensifying. Officials from the U.S., Ukraine and Russia have crisscrossed the globe in recent weeks in a flurry of meetings aimed at negotiating a deal. Among the key negotiators is Steve Witkoff, a real estate magnate turned White House foreign policy fixer for the Trump administration. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has played an important role. Rustem Umerov was appointed to lead Ukraine’s delegation in peace talks with U.S. officials in Florida following the resignation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff. Yuri Ushakov is a long-time Russian diplomat who has served as a presidential aide since 2012.
President Donald Trump says he will visit Beijing in April and host China’s President Xi Jinping for a state visit later next year. Trump and Xi also spoke by phone on Monday to discuss trade, Taiwan and Ukraine, according to the White House and Chinese officials. Xi told Trump in the phone call that Taiwan’s return to mainland China is “an integral part of the post-war international order,” according to China’s foreign ministry. A White House official confirmed that the call happened on Monday morning but offered no details of the call.
Trump says he will visit Beijing in April and host China’s Xi for a state visit later next year.
FILE — Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025. The State Departmen…
President Donald Trump walks to the presidential limo after arriving on Air Force One in Amsterdam on his way to the NATO summit in The Hague,…
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One as he travels to the NATO summit in the Netherlands, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Se…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper attends a NATO defense ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.
