Zelenskyy: Ukraine hopes to move to leaders' level talks

Zelenskyy noted that Envoys of President Trump Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were also on the call with Trump.

"Our teams work intensively, and I thanked them for all their work and for their active involvement in the negotiations and the efforts to end the war," Zelenskyy said.

He added that Ukraine highly values the supply of weapons through the PURL program. Ammunition for air defense systems sold by the United States helps repel Russian missile strikes.

Zelenskyy also highlighted discussions about the Ukraine-US meeting in Geneva on February 26 and preparations for the next trilateral meeting scheduled for early March.

"We expect this meeting to create an opportunity to move talks to the leaders’ level. President Trump supports this sequence of steps. This is the only way to resolve all the complex and sensitive issues and finally end the war," he said.

A bilateral meeting without Russian participation is scheduled for February 26 in Geneva. Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov is expected to meet with Witkoff. After that, new trilateral talks between Ukraine, the United States, and Russia could take place, potentially as early as March.

The previous round of negotiations was held on February 17–18 in Geneva. According to US media reports, the political track reached a deadlock due to positions voiced by the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky. At the same time, the military negotiating group achieved results, including "significant progress" in determining how the ceasefire would function.