Kushner says US working toward 'largest prisoner exchange' of Russia's war in Ukraine
The planned exchange could involve thousands of prisoners, while U.S. and Ukrainian officials said Europe will have a more direct role in talks.
- On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in Dublin, where they announced progress toward the war's largest prisoner exchange potentially reuniting thousands with their families.
- The breakthrough followed two days of U.S.-brokered discussions in Abu Dhabi between Russian, Ukrainian, and American delegations, marking the first direct diplomacy between Moscow and Kyiv in nine months.
- Following meetings between Kushner and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the Kremlin agreed to include European partners in the next round of peace talks, a move Zelensky welcomed as essential.
- Zelensky hailed the agreement as a "real result," though officials have not released a timetable or prisoner list, leaving implementation details undisclosed.
- Future negotiations will address "broader postwar European security arrangements alongside the territorial issues between Ukraine and Russia," Kushner said, emphasizing credible "reciprocal" de-escalation commitments.
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The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Lien, responded positively on Friday to the forthcoming exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine. "I welcome the exchange of prisoners," she said to journalists at the European Political Community meeting in Dublin.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinski announced that his country would have the largest prisoner exchange with Russia since the outbreak of the war in February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that a planned prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine would be the largest of its kind to date, calling the development a “real result” of ongoing negotiations. Speaking to reporters after meeting in Dublin with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law and special envoy, Jared Kushner, Zelensky said the Russian side had agreed to a prisoner exch…
"Our trilateral meeting was unblocked and is very important because it gives hope that we will end this war," the Ukrainian president said.
Europe to join next Ukraine talks as prisoner-exchange plan takes shape - FINCHANNEL
European representatives are set to join the next round of Ukraine peace talks, according to U.S. envoys and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a shift that would place European governments more directly in negotiations over a war whose outcome will shape the continent’s security arrangements. The development emerged after U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner […]
Ukraine and Russia have both agreed to include European representatives in the next round of talks, US President Donald Trump's special envoy Jared Kushner said after talks in Moscow on Thursday and a later meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, he said the Europeans' involvement is dictated by the need to discuss a broader security arrangement in Europe.
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