Svyrydenko meets Kushner and Witkoff to discuss economic track of peace plan

Ukraine and the United States have created a working group on economic recovery with the participation of the World Bank and investment company BlackRock, Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said after a meeting with Jared Kushner, Steven Witkoff, World Bank President Ajay Banga, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.

"We continue to work with our American partners and the leadership of international financial institutions on the economic track as part of efforts to ensure a sustainable and just peace for Ukraine. A joint working group has been established. Its primary task is to develop an action plan as soon as possible," Svyrydenko wrote on social media, without providing further details.

She added that Kushner and Witkoff assured her of "ironclad" security guarantees for Ukraine.

"The Ukrainian team is ready to work as intensively as our American partners. These economic plans have every chance of succeeding if ironclad security guarantees, as stated by the U.S. representatives at the meeting, are ensured," Svyrydenko said.

• On December 11, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that two economic issues — the status of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and Russia’s frozen assets — remain among the most difficult elements in discussions on the peace plan proposed by the United States for Ukraine and Russia.