US envoys Kushner and Witkoff to meet Zelenskiy in Dublin this week

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US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will travel to Dublin this week to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Kushner announced the plan following US-mediated talks…

US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will travel to Dublin this week to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Kushner announced the plan following US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi.

He said he will travel with Witkoff to Moscow on Thursday to meet president Vladimir Putin to “go over what was discussed today and try to make progress on some of the issues that we discussed.”

Kushner said they would then fly to Dublin to meet Zelenskiy to “debrief with him and further explore some of the ideas that we came up with today”, he said.

Zelenskiy will be in Dublin at the European Political Community summit, alongside other EU leaders.

Officials at the talks between Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi said the sides have agreed a large exchange of prisoners of war.

“One of the positives is we agreed that we’re going to have the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, which we’re going to finalise the numbers tomorrow,” Kushner, US president Donald Trump’s son-in-law, said after the two days of talks ended.

Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation, and Rustem Umerov, who led Kyiv’s delegation in Abu Dhabi, confirmed the planned exchange.

Hopes were low for any major breakthrough in the first meeting in nine months between the delegations. Russia and Ukraine have from time to time swapped prisoners during their nearly five-year war.

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