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"The American representatives prepared thoroughly for this trip," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters, including AFP.
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin (left), Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov (2nd left) and Russia's presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev (center) attend a meeting with US special envoy Steve Witkoff (2nd right) and US President's son-in-law Jared Kushner (3rd right) in Moscow on September 5, 2026. (AFP/AFP)
The Kremlin said Saturday President Vladimir Putin had held "extremely frank" talks with US envoys on how to end the Ukraine war, with the Americans proposing a "number of ideas"."The American representatives prepared thoroughly for this trip," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters, including AFP.
"They did not only express their traditional interest in bringing the hostilities to a quick end, they put forward a number of ideas on possible routes to a settlement," he said.
