The US security assurance document is ready

A US document on security guarantees for Ukraine is fully ready and Kiev is waiting for a time and place for it to be signed.

This was said by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, indicating that weekend talks with Russia in Abu Dhabi have made some progress, foreign media write, according to Telegraph.

"For us, security guarantees are first and foremost security guarantees from the United States. The document is 100% ready and we are waiting for our partners to confirm the date and place when we will sign it," Zelensky stressed at a press conference during a visit to Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.

"The document will then be sent for ratification to the US Congress and the Ukrainian parliament," he added.

On Friday and Saturday, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators held their first trilateral meeting including US mediators in Abu Dhabi to discuss Washington's framework for ending the nearly four-year war, but no agreement was reached.

However, Moscow and Kiev said they were open to further dialogue and more discussions are expected next Sunday in Abu Dhabi, a US official told reporters immediately after the weekend talks.

"(In Abu Dhabi) the (US) 20-point plan and problematic issues are being discussed. There were many problematic issues, but now there are fewer," Zelensky said.

According to him, Moscow wants to do everything possible to get Ukraine to abandon the eastern regions that Moscow has been unable to occupy since its full-scale invasion that sparked the war.

But Kiev, he said, had not shifted from its position that Ukraine's territorial integrity must be preserved.

"These are two fundamentally different positions – of Ukraine and of Russia. The Americans are trying to find a compromise," Zelensky said, adding that all sides should be prepared for compromise, including the Americans.

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