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Ukraine ready for new peace talks 'at any moment', Zelenskiy says

AL-Monitor
Mar 9, 2026
Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 7, 2026. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy
Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 7, 2026. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy — Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy

KYIV, March 9 (Reuters) - Ukraine is ready for new U.S.-backed peace talks "at any moment", but its partners' attention is currently focused on the Iran conflict, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday, adding that the U.S. had asked to postpone an upcoming meeting.

Writing on X, Zelenskiy said Moscow was trying to manipulate the conflict in its favour and aiming to turn Iran's strikes on its neighbours and U.S. bases into "a second front of Russia's war against Ukraine".

(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka; Writing by Dan Peleschuk; Editing by Kevin Liffey)