{"id":1338997,"date":"2025-12-31T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-us-said-that-negotiations-on-ukraine-have-entered-a-critical-phase\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:56:24","slug":"the-us-said-that-negotiations-on-ukraine-have-entered-a-critical-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-us-said-that-negotiations-on-ukraine-have-entered-a-critical-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"The US said that negotiations on Ukraine have entered a &#8220;critical phase&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"publication-lead\">\n<strong>The US said on New Year&#8217;s Eve that negotiations to end the Russian-Ukrainian war had entered a &#8220;critical&#8221; phase.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"publication-lead\">\nUS <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USAmbNATO\/status\/2006301919099470217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ambassador<\/a> to NATO Matthew Whitaker said this on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On New Year&#8217;s Eve, as negotiations over the war in Ukraine enter a critical phase, US President Donald Trump is the only leader capable of bringing both sides of the conflict to the negotiating table,&#8221; the report says.<\/p>\n<p>The US Ambassador to NATO added that Trump could see if a peace agreement between the parties could be reached.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Kremlin stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-moskvi-nazvaly-umovu-prypynennia-vohniu-dlia-ukrainy\/\">Ukraine must withdraw its troops from Donbas if it wants to end the fighting<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>As you know,<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/putin-shchyro-bazhaie-uspikhu-ukraini-osnovni-zaiavy-trampa-ta-zelenskoho\/\">the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> ended at the private Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. After this meeting, a final press conference was held.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, US President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-proviv-telefonnu-rozmovu-z-putinym-naperedodni-zustrichchiu-iz-zelenskym\/\">Trump spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> before meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Talks between the US and Ukrainian leaders are set to begin in about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth adding that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the eve of his meeting with US President Donald Trump, stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-zaiavyv-pro-mozhlyvi-rishennia-do-novoho-roku-pered-zustrichchiu-z-trampom\/\">important decisions could be made by the end of the year<\/a> . According to him, this depends on the position of Ukraine&#8217;s international partners and pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US said on New Year&#8217;s Eve that negotiations to end the Russian-Ukrainian war had entered a &#8220;critical&#8221; phase. US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said this on social media. &#8220;On New Year&#8217;s Eve, as negotiations over the war in Ukraine enter a critical phase, US President Donald Trump is the only leader capable of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1329644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1338997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338998,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338997\/revisions\/1338998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}