The meeting between Witkoff and Zelensky was postponed – Mehr news agency RCO News Agency

According to the Mehr News Agency, quoted by Al Jazeera, the news base Axios According to an American official, the planned meeting between Steve WitkoffAmerica’s special envoy for Middle East affairs and VolodymyrZelensky It has been postponed due to “the withdrawal of the President of Ukraine from previous understandings between Washington and Kyiv”.

According to this report, Zelensky Previously, he traveled to Ankara and took with him a new plan that was developed in cooperation with some European partners; A plan that, according to the American official, Russia will not accept.

Axios It also reported that the postponement of this meeting was done in the shadow of the ongoing investigation about a corruption case in Ukraine.

Following the related developments, the British newspaper Financial Times, quoting the sources it called informed, announced that the plan proposed by the United States for Ukraine includes a ban on the deployment of foreign forces on the territory of this country.

These sources added that in the framework of this plan, Kiev is prohibited from receiving western long-range weapons and the reduction of the number of Ukrainian army forces is also predicted. According to this report, restrictions will also be imposed on some types of Ukrainian weapons.

In response to these reports, Yohan WadfulGermany’s foreign minister said the United States had not informed Berlin of the “new peace plan” for Ukraine.

He emphasized that more efforts are necessary for the peaceful resolution of the Ukraine crisis.

Wadful He added: “There is no alternative to the negotiation process, and this is what I take from the joint meetings now in Istanbul.”