Zelensky spoke about several scenarios for ending the conflict from the United States

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the American side had offered Kiev several scenarios for ending the armed conflict. This was reported on July 23 on the website of the Ukrainian TV channel TCH.

"Yesterday I had a conversation with [entrepreneur] Jared [Kushner] and [US Special Envoy Stephen] By Witkoff <...>. We discussed the possibility of a meeting and several developments from the United States after the end of the conflict, as well as several plans. They will share these ideas with us. We will have a meeting, they want to share it with us and with the Russians," Zelensky said."

Zelensky stressed that work in this direction must be carried out persistently in order to be able to implement the planned plans before the onset of autumn, the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian edition added."Страна.иа ".

Conversational progress: Russia looks positively at restarting dialogue in Istanbul

What message did Sergey Lavrov convey to Western countries at the forum in Turkey?

Earlier in the day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Manila, Philippines. It lasted for 35 minutes.

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry told the American Secretary of State about the real state of affairs on the line of combat contact in Ukraine. The minister also drew Rubio's attention to Moscow's willingness to resolve the conflict through diplomacy. In turn, the Secretary of State called the talks frank and good, but stated the need to find "new ideas" on Ukraine.