President’s Office confirms new Geneva talks as Russia sends Medinsky again

A new round of trilateral talks between Ukraine, the United States, and Russia is scheduled for February 17-18 in Geneva. This was confirmed in a commentary to journalists by Dmytro Lytvyn, communications adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

"As of today, the Ukrainian delegation is preparing [for the next meeting]," Lytvyn said, emphasizing that more information will come from the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, head of the Ukrainian negotiating delegation Rustem Umerov.

Before that, the date and place of the new round of talks were announced by the spokesman for the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov.

He also said that the Russian delegation would be headed by Putin's aide Vladimir Medinsky, who represented Russia at the Istanbul meetings in 2025 and in 2022.

• At the previous trilateral meetings in 2026, the Russian delegation was headed by Admiral Igor Kostyukov, the head of the Main Directorate of the Russian General Staff. His agency is better known by its former name, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). The Russian delegation included representatives of military intelligence and the army.
  Foreign Minister Sibiga said that the delegation Russia sent to the trilateral meetings in Abu Dhabi, had changed qualitatively – there were no more "pseudo-historical lectures". Medynsky, in particular, resorted to such lectures, saying at the talks in Istanbul that the war was being waged only between Russians, and his delegation essentially denied the existence of Ukrainians as a nation .