‘Everyone Is Talking About Us’: Zelensky Puts Ukraine Back in Global Spotlight at Davos

In Davos, where global attention was largely focused on Greenland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he shifted the focus to Ukraine.

Zelensky made a last-minute trip to the World Economic Forum Thursday to meet US President Donald Trump. The meeting was arranged only after days of uncertainty about whether it would take place.

“With all due respect, the focus [in Davos] was on Greenland – but we have a full-scale war. I am not comparing the two, but anyone can see the scale of threats,” he said, speaking to the journalists on a messaging app on Friday.

“Yet we managed to refocus attention on Ukraine, and now everyone is talking about us. That is important for us.”

Listing the positive outcomes of the Davos visit, Zelensky said he and Trump agreed on supplying additional PAC-3 anti-ballistic missiles and finalized US security guarantees.

“These are positive results for Ukraine,” he said.

He also said that progress has been made toward securing a peace agreement approved by all sides. Technical trilateral groups are now set to meet following talks in Moscow.

“The Americans flew to Moscow – they were planning the trip – but the key point is that after that, there will be a trilateral meeting of our negotiators. In any case, this is a step forward. God willing, it may help bring the war to an end, but it is progress – we are not standing still,” Zelensky said.

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Speaking to Kyiv Post, Senior Western officials said the next 48 hours could determine whether Europe’s bloodiest war in a generation moves from the trenches to the negotiating table.

“This is the closest we’ve been to a structured three-party process since the invasion,” a senior European diplomat told Kyiv Post late Thursday. “It’s fragile, but it’s real.”

The Kremlin, however, still insists on Ukraine ceding all of the Donbas. 

“Until that happens, Russia will continue to achieve the goals of the special military operation on the battlefield,” Putin’s aide Ushakov said after a three-hour-long meeting between Putin and Trump’s negotiators in Moscow late Thursday – a brief stop between Davos and the upcoming trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi.

The Kremlin has repeatedly demanded the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from all of the Donbas, including areas Russia has not been able to conquer in 12 years of trying, as a condition for ending hostilities. Ukrainian officials have rejected the demand, saying territorial issues cannot be decided under military pressure or outside international law.