Zelenskiy says Ukraine expects Europeans to join talks with US

October 8, 2026 3:25 PM EDT

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks to the media while he visits together with British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband the site of an apartment building where 22 residents were killed yesterday morning by a Russian missile strike in the town of P

Oct 8 (Reuters) - President ‌Volodymyr Zelenskiy ​said ​on Thursday that Ukraine expected Kyiv's European partners to join talks with ‌the US in coming days.

Zelenskiy earlier said ⁠that Ukraine's negotiators would hold talks in the United ‌States on Friday and ‌Saturday as part of efforts led by the United States to seek a settlement of ​the 4-1/2-year-old war with Russia.

The president, speaking to reporters in Kyiv, said Ukrainian ⁠negotiators would raise the issue of air defences in light of ​near-constant Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities. More than 70 have been killed in ​strikes over the past ‌two days.

Zelenskiy also said Ukraine had "mirrored" Russian attacks on data centres, referring ⁠to a strike on a centre operated by Russian technology company Yandex.

"We always respond in mirror-like ⁠fashion," Zelenskiy said. "You all know, they have been hitting and ​continue to hit our data centres. We are responding. I can't share all the details."

Russian technology and AI ‌company Yandex said on Thursday it could not yet determine whether ‌equipment at a data centre hit by a ⁠Ukrainian drone attack ‌could be restored.

(Reporting ​by Yuliia Dysa; Writing by Ron Popeski; Editing by Mark Porter and Cynthia ‌Osterman)



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