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Zelenskiy Heads to Oslo for Talks With Trump Envoy Witkoff Amid US-Ukraine Tensions
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Zelenskiy travels to Oslo to meet US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Talks include Norwegian PM and Finnish President; aim to advance peace talks on Ukraine-Russia war.
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Oslo talks, then Moscow
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to travel to Norway for a next round of negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, with Reuters saying the meetings are expected to include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and to be held in Oslo. Reuters reported that Witkoff is also expected to travel to Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin, and that the discussions in Russia will focus on Ukraine-related issues as well as the release of American citizen Stephen Hubbard, jailed in Russia in 2022.
The Reuters report said the agenda was provisional and subject to change, and it placed the Oslo talks alongside a statement that Zelenskiy said Ukrainian and American negotiators could meet in Norway in the coming days. The BBC said Zelenskiy would arrive in Norway on October 20 to meet with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, and it said the Norwegian government confirmed the visit as part of putting diplomatic efforts on a more constructive path.
Starshield and Patriot fight
Zelenskiy accused the United States of ordering a slowdown of the Starshield military-use satellite system, owned by SpaceX, and of limiting intelligence sharing and delaying the delivery of Patriot air defense missiles that other countries had paid for.
Zelenskiy said in a video posted Monday on Telegram, "All of this suggests that some political decision has been made to slow the support we receive," and the Reuters report said U.S. officials denied the allegations.
The Reuters report also said U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had not yet authorized the delivery of the latest U.S.-supplied weapons package procured by NATO allies under a program known as PURL, and it said Reuters could not confirm whether it included Patriot missiles.
The BBC reported that Ukraine’s President was travelling to Norway for talks, and it quoted Trump telling reporters in Washington on Monday, "We've given a lot to Ukraine. They've given nothing to us," as Trump accused Zelenskiy of refusing to hold peace talks with Russia.
Attacks continue as talks loom
Russia continued attacks on Ukraine as the Oslo talks approached, with the BBC reporting that Russia killed at least three people in the Kyiv region and injured several others. The BBC said emergency crews battled a fire at a production and storage facility outside the Ukrainian capital, and it added that a Russian drone struck near the Kyiv-Odesa highway, killing three people and injuring four others, with the number of casualties still verified.
The BBC also reported that overnight Russian forces attacked three energy facilities in the Odesa region, and it said DTEK reported more than 30,000 households remained without electricity following the attack. In parallel, the Reuters report said the meetings in Russia would include the release of American citizen Stephen Hubbard, and it said the Oslo discussions were expected to involve representatives from the E4, the European Union, and NATO as the diplomatic agenda remained provisional and subject to change.