US envoys Witkoff and Kushner may visit Russia in coming days, TASS reports
The envoys will press ahead after agreeing in principle to a major prisoner exchange and discussing security guarantees, territorial issues and Europe’s role.
- On Thursday, US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, following two days of trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi; they plan to travel to Dublin afterward to debrief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- Trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11 sought to resolve the five-year conflict, marking the first direct engagement between Russian and Ukrainian delegations since February to discuss post-war security arrangements and de-escalation.
- Kushner announced an agreement in principle for a massive prisoner exchange, describing it as the "biggest" humanitarian release of the war; negotiators plan to finalize exact figures on Thursday, providing a rare concrete deliverable from the diplomatic session.
- Russian delegation chief Vladimir Medinsky stated the "discussion will certainly continue," while Ukrainian negotiator Davyd Arakhamia reported "good momentum" despite warning that "significant differences remain" on territorial disputes.
- US envoys plan to press Moscow on adopting a multilateral negotiation format that includes European partners; Russia has questioned the value of European participation, arguing that European nations have provided no "concrete proposal.
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(Roma=Yonhap News) Correspondent Min-kyung-rak = On the 12th (local time), US envoys who mediated the two-day three-party final negotiations met with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine one after another to add...
US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow this Thursday 12 November to meet Vladimir Putin, then travel the same day to Dublin to see his Ukrainian counterpart...
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff then continue to Dublin for a meeting with Zelensky. The President of Ukraine expressed skepticism about the results of the talks and demands guarantees of security and sovereignty over the Donbass region
"I don't really believe that it will happen, but there is hope," the Ukrainian president said.
The Toronto Star
US envoys in Moscow for meeting with Putin following talks in Abu Dhabi
MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys arrived in Moscow on Thursday for talks with President Vladimir Putin about the results of U.S.-mediated talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations.
"If Europe could identify a single person to speak on its behalf, that would be a greater achievement than convincing the Russians to include it in the negotiations," Kushner said. Negotiations in Abu Dhabi ended with very limited progress.
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