Witkoff and Kushner Meet with Putin: New Round of Talks on Ukraine Agreed

US presidential special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, after trilateral talks between Washington, Moscow and Kyiv in Abu Dhabi, flew to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin. The meeting with the Russian president in the Kremlin lasted about 2.5 hours.

Following the meeting, a new round of trilateral talks on Ukraine was agreed, Witkoff told journalists, also reporting that progress had been achieved. According to him, representatives of European countries will join the next round of talks on settling the conflict. In addition to the exchange of prisoners, other humanitarian issues were discussed — they will be announced soon, the US leader's special envoy added.

Jared Kushner called the talks held intensive and detailed. According to him, the talks will take place next week, and they will be influenced by everything the American negotiators discussed at the meeting with Vladimir Putin. The American negotiators are expected to travel to Dublin, where they will meet with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky and inform him about the meeting in Moscow.