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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"I don't really believe that it will happen, but there is hope," the Ukrainian president said.
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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.
U.S. President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, have arrived in Moscow on Thursday morning for talks with Vladimir Putin, writes Ukrainianska Pravda, who quotes the Russian press.The plane...
US envoys Witkoff, Kushner arrive in Moscow for talks with Putin
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin. Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev welcomed them at Vnukovo Airport, and TASS confirmed their convoy departed the airport following their touchdown in the Russian capital.
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