The negotiation format involving Russia, Ukraine, and the United States has effectively stalled—the “trilateral group is on pause,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a comment to Izvestia. According to Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, neither the timing nor the location of the next meeting between representatives of the three countries has been determined.
At the same time, Peskov noted that the Russian president’s special envoy continues his work and remains in contact with the American side. In parallel, Moscow and Kyiv, he said, maintain cooperation on issues related to prisoner exchanges and the transfer of the bodies of fallen soldiers.
The latest round of trilateral consultations took place in Geneva on February 17–18. The next meeting had been expected in early March in Abu Dhabi; however, on February 28, the United States and Israel launched a military operation against Iran, which also affected countries in the Persian Gulf.
In an interview with BBC News published on March 18, Volodymyr Zelensky noted that, despite Washington’s shift in focus toward Iran, the American side continues to maintain contacts with both Ukrainian and Russian participants in the negotiations. At the same time, he stressed that he has “very bad premonitions about the impact of this war on the situation in Ukraine,” adding that “trilateral meetings are constantly being postponed.”