Kushner says US working toward 'largest prisoner exchange' of Russia's war in Ukraine
U.S. envoys said talks with Russia and Ukraine advanced a swap that could free thousands of prisoners and bring Europeans into the next round.
- 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 US is working to organize the largest prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine since the beginning of the war, and US President Jared Kouchner's Special Envoy wrote about it on social media X following a meeting with Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelinski in Dublin on the evening of 12 November.
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.
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A major breakthrough in the Russia–Ukraine peace process? US President Donald Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are working towards what could become the largest prisoner exchange of the war, potentially bringing thousands of captives home. The plan follows US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi, where Moscow and Kyiv agreed in principle to a major prisoner release. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has welcomed the diplomatic progress…
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…
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