Trump Envoys Witkoff and Kushner Meet With Putin in Moscow for Ukraine Talks

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As peace efforts continue, the U.S. envoys are set to meet later with Zelensky, who has reported further disruptions to Ukraine's Starshield service.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow Thursday to discuss Ukraine, after two days of U.S.-led talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Abu Dhabi yielded no major breakthroughs.

“I think progress was made. I think it was made earlier today,” Witkoff told reporters after the meeting at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin. “People didn't think that we were going to restart trilateral. We’ve restarted it. We’ve set a new meeting. This is what President [Donald] Trump wants to see."

He went on to say that a European representative would be present for the next stage of the talks, which are set to look at the continent’s wider security arrangements. “They’re our partners, and it’s important for them to be involved,” he said.

Witkoff and Kushner are now en route to Dublin, where they are set to brief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on any developments from the talks. Zelensky is among the dozens of world leaders in the Irish capital for the European Political Community summit.

Zelensky has expressed optimism about the next round of negotiations, saying there is a "window of opportunity” to reach a peace deal with Russia.

“There really is this window of opportunity, when all the participants involved in this negotiating process could get the result by the beginning of 2027,” he said, speaking alongside Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin during a press conference in Dublin.

Although Russian and Ukrainian negotiators ⁠reported some progress during this week's Abu Dhabi talks—including a prisoner swap agreement—all sides have acknowledged that significant differences remain, particularly over territory.

Kyiv has strongly rejected Putin's demands to surrender the entirety of the eastern Donbas. With negotiations over territory deadlocked, U.S. mediators have instead sought to steer discussions toward post-war security guarantees and reconstruction.

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