KIEV, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that the next meeting aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict would take place in the United States on Saturday.

This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential press-service on March 19, 2026 shows Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking from Kyiv to EU leaders via video link during a rountable of the EU Summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels. (File photo: AFP)

In a post on X, Zelensky said that a Ukrainian delegation had departed for the talks, with a priority "to do everything possible to create the conditions for a dignified peace."

Zelensky added that Ukraine has received signals from the U.S. side indicating readiness to continue working within the existing negotiation formats to bring an end to the conflict.

Russia will not participate in the talks on Saturday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.

Delegations from Ukraine, the United States and Russia previously held two rounds of talks in Abu Dhabi on Jan. 23-24 and Feb. 4-5, followed by another round in Geneva on Feb. 17-18.

Zelensky further said a trilateral meeting initially scheduled for mid-March was postponed at the initiative of the U.S. side.