President Vladimir Zelensky stated that the meeting on Thursday with U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, "brings back hope," and Ukraine requires strong agreements with the United States.
"Today involved a lot of our international efforts. General Kellogg's meeting is one that restores hope, and we need strong agreements with America—agreements that will truly work," the president said in an evening video address on Thursday.
Zelensky emphasized that he "instructed to work quickly and very, very thoughtfully."
According to him, "the economy and security must always go hand in hand, and the details of the agreements matter: the better the details are articulated, the greater the outcome."
He also mentioned that he discussed with Kellogg the situation at the front, the necessity of freeing all Ukrainian prisoners held in Russia, as well as the need for a reliable and clear security guarantee system to prevent the war from returning and to ensure that Russians "do not destroy lives."
"Peace is needed by all of us: Ukraine, Europe, America, everyone in the world," the Ukrainian leader concluded.