US negotiators are set to travel to Kyiv on Sunday after concluding intensive talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as Washington renews its push to end the war in Ukraine.
US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner began their whirlwind weekend of diplomacy with a three-hour meeting with Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday afternoon. The negotiations were followed by dinner with the Russian leader, according to a Kremlin press briefing.
The Kremlin released video of Witkoff and Kushner meeting with Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday afternoon.
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov later described the talks as “useful” and said the American representatives had “prepared seriously for this trip.” He said the US team expressed interest in ending hostilities as quickly as possible and offered “a whole series of considerations regarding possible paths to a settlement.”
Ushakov said Witkoff and Kushner had promised to use “the observations and assessments they received personally from the President of Russia,” during talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday.
