'This Gives Hope..': Zelensky Signals Biggest POW Swap Yet, Europe to Join Next Round of Peace Talks

Good evening, dear journalists. Thank you so much. Thank you for your support that you are here. So, just had talks with our American partners and First of all, I want to say thanks so much for all our NSAs and all our groups in Abu Dhabi. They had progress. We talked about it. So, first of all, it was a lot of friendly conversation, and it's very important because it gives hope that we will end this war, that after this meeting will be another meeting, and each meeting has to give results and bring us closer to peace. The second, or maybe the first, the result is very important and now after Russia, American team accepted also that we will have exchange of POWs. It will be the biggest, as Stephen Jarrett told me, the biggest exchange of war prisoners and these guys and our soldiers will come home. So I'm very thankful to them. All our negotiators, this is real result, it's very important, this is successful for the families first of all, of course, and all of us. People will come home to their families. Then the American side, American group made progress. On Europeans, this is important that Europeans next time, next meeting, Europe will be during negotiation, will be at negotiation team in not some way, not separately, they will have a voice. This is important for us because the war is in Europe, we will be the member of the EU in the future. And that's why it's very important for prosperity and for security guarantees, it's very important to have Europe. I think this is very important, and the last thing, Jared and Steve will say more, and the last thing that we will have from the closest time, the next meeting with all these negotiators. First of all, I want to thank President Zelensky for giving a very good discussion, and I think it is a good recap of what's occurred over the last three days. The last three days for Steve and I has been very intense. We had many, many hours on both days in Abu Dhabi, with meetings at night and in the morning before and after. And then we left late last night to go over to Latvia, went from Latvia to Moscow, spent a lot of time there. We had a very detailed and productive meeting with President Putin, and we had this negotiating team with him, Yuri Ushakov and Joe Dmitriev, and Vladimir Yudinsky, and we had very, very good discussions and a lot of fun, so we were able to finalize on the prisoner of war exchange, which is a very important thing. So the human, a lot of people are being... A lot of people are being impacted by this war, and to return these thousands of people to their families, I think, will be a very nice milestone to achieve. We've also been working very, very closely over the past several months with the Europeans, and I think that that's been very important. We cannot conclude this deal without the Europeans being at the table. We've been telling President Putin that we believe that it's very important, and that President Putin has been a very strong He's a supporter, and he's been saying that from the very, very beginning, and I think that we're able to achieve that with President Putin, and he's willing to give it a try. I think that, you know, from the Russian perspective, from the European perspective, there's a lot of things that both sides are saying publicly, and I think that what we're hopefully seeing in the conversations when people get together is you can talk about things, you can maybe have a little bit more calm conversations and go through these issues, and I think what I would say, at least what we're hearing from people, is that people would like to see this war end. This war has been on for a long time. Obviously, it's impacted a lot of people. And I think that we're very focused on what the future can bring. I know we've been working with the presidents of these famous teams very closely on the post-war plan for Ukraine. The potential of Ukraine is incredible. Think about what Ukraine's been able to accomplish to defend themselves in this war. The innovation, the ingenuity, the strength, the brilliance. It's been so impressive, and I think that transferring that same tenacity to the post-war, building the economy, building society, off of this, I think would be something very exciting, and the plans that we're working on are really incredible. And then obviously a big, big conversation has been about the post-war security for Ukraine and really for the region to make sure that what happens after this war doesn't happen again. And so we've been very in depth with President Zelenskyy General Kritschevich has really been leading those efforts, and I think that there's a lot of progress that needs to be made. So we'll have more conversations on it, and again, we'll just need close coordination, and hopefully we'll have more progress. Well, Jarrett and President Zelensky have touched on all the issues. We had a very, very good and positive meeting with the UAE. We're going to have the largest, as we talked about, the largest hostage release, but most importantly, President Trump is intent on leading efforts to end this war. That's the instructions to me and Jarrett. And that's why we're here tonight, that's why we flew here tonight, to meet the President directly and tell him directly to report to you, sir, on some of the positive results that we've achieved. We've got another meeting on the schedule. And we're all going to work very, very hard to get to that goal. What has President Trump said to this news? How has he reacted? I don't know. How are you all? We follow you. A media we follow President Trump. Oh, no. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. 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