Zelensky says Ukraine-US talks could resume as early as next week

The signal here is flexibility, not a breakthrough: Kyiv is explicitly decoupling the substance of negotiations from their format, location and participant count, which lowers the bar for any meeting to happen at all. That matters most for European capitals and Washington, which have been the venue and funding side of any diplomatic track. The open question is whether this openness is met with a counterpart willing to sit down on those terms, or whether format ambiguity becomes the thing that delays a next round. Watch whether a date and venue actually get confirmed.