“Together with the United States, we are creating the Fund that will attract global investment to our country,” she said in a post on X after the signing.
Ukraine’s presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, said Zelenskyy will sit at the table only with the Russian leader.Secretary of State Marco Rubio is among U.S. officials due to be in Turkey for the talks.
In May 2024, China and Brazil issued a joint peace plan that called for a peace conference with Russia and Ukraine and no expansion of the battlefield, but Zelenskyy dismissed it.On Tuesday, Brazil and China released a joint statement hoping that “a direct dialogue between the parties can begin as soon as possible.”The U.S. and Western European leaders have threatened Russia with further sanctions if there is no progress in halting the fighting in Ukraine.
France’s foreign minister said he is working with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a leading ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, on a potential new package of what he called “devastating” sanctions.The measures would aim to “asphyxiate once and for all the Russian economy” and squeeze Russia “by the throat,” with possible 500% import tariffs on Russian oil and countries that buy it, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said. He told French broadcaster BFMTV he would see Graham on Thursday in Turkey.
Sanctions already adopted by Ukraine’s allies have failed to stop Putin.
Russian forces have beenOn Tuesday, Zelenskyy said that this decree affected other Ukrainian officials who were directly negotiating with the Russian leader.
AP writers Geir Moulson in Berlin and Matthew Lee in Antalya, Turkey, contributed to this report.Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at
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