President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he considered visits by US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow but not Kyiv “disrespectful”.
The pair visited the Russian capital late last year as ceasefire talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine gained pace, and again in January.
Witkoff, who has been to Moscow eight times, met Vladimir Putin on many occasions.
Neither he nor Kushner, however, has ever visited Kyiv in an official capacity.
“It’s disrespectful [for them] to come to Moscow and not Kyiv, it’s just disrespectful,” Zelensky said in an interview with a Ukrainian outlet.
“I understand we have complex logistics… If they don’t want to, we can meet in other countries,” he added.
Witkoff, a former real estate magnate, is Donald Trump’s special envoy and Kushner is the US president’s son-in-law.
