Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says he urged Trump to enlist China’s help in ending Russia’s invasion

Zelenskyy told reporters he has not yet received feedback from the White House about Trump’s talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping but expects to learn the outcome. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that he asked U.S. President Donald Trump to press China’s leader to use Beijing’s influence over Moscow in a diplomatic effort to get Russia to end its 4½-year-long invasion of Ukraine.

Zelenskyy, who is keen to muster more international support for Ukraine’s defense, was in the United States this week on a trip coinciding with the U.N. NATO countries have called China a “decisive enabler” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Zelenskyy shared more details of his U.S.

trip in voice messages to a group of journalists. Here are other issues that were also on Zelenskyy’s agenda: Zelenskyy says the US wants initial technical talks Washington is pushing for a three-way meeting involving delegations from the U.S., Ukraine and Russia, with officials holding technical talks in that format without the countries’ leaders, Zelenskyy said. to propose a date for those meetings, he said, adding that American officials suggested the United Arab Emirates as the location for these talks.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday that Putin and Trump during their call earlier this month discussed holding such a meeting in the near future. “As of now, I can’t give you any specifics,” Peskov said. Representatives from the three countries held three rounds of trilateral negotiations early this year, twice in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, and once in Geneva, but the talks achieved no significant breakthroughs.

Hefty US sanctions on Russia are on hold Zelenskyy met with U.S. senators and congressmen during his U.S. trip and said he thanked them for their bipartisan support in passing a powerful sanctions bill aimed at Moscow last month.

Trump signed the bill into law last week but hasn’t enacted the measures yet. Sanctions are key in forcing Putin to the negotiating table, Zelenskyy said, adding that he hoped Trump would implement the measures. “The sanctions are indeed strong … all of this is now in the hands of the president of the United States.