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According to the report, US envoy Steve Witkoff said Saturday he had held constructive talks with a Russian envoy in Florida as part of Washington’s drive to end the war in Ukraine. The meeting came just a day before Ukrainian and Russian negotiators were scheduled to meet in Abu Dhabi to discuss a US-backed plan to halt the nearly four-year conflict that began with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Witkoff posted on X, stating, “Today in Florida, the Russian Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev held productive and constructive meetings as part of the U.S. mediation effort toward advancing a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict. It said: We are encouraged by this meeting that Russia is working toward securing peace in Ukraine.
The report said that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and White House Senior Advisor Josh Gruenbaum also attended the talks.
The report added that Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s top economic envoy, met Witkoff and Kushner earlier in January on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Additionally, teams from Ukraine and Russia met Friday and Saturday last week in Abu Dhabi in their first in-person negotiations on a plan being pushed by Trump. The United States says both sides are close to a deal, but they have so far been unable to find a compromise on the key issue of territory in a postwar settlement, according to Kyiv. The Kremlin on Friday said Putin had agreed to a pause on striking Kyiv, ending Sunday, following a request by Trump.
Source: The Defense Post
Witkoff posted on X, stating, “Today in Florida, the Russian Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev held productive and constructive meetings as part of the U.S. mediation effort toward advancing a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict. It said: We are encouraged by this meeting that Russia is working toward securing peace in Ukraine.
The report said that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and White House Senior Advisor Josh Gruenbaum also attended the talks.
The report added that Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s top economic envoy, met Witkoff and Kushner earlier in January on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Additionally, teams from Ukraine and Russia met Friday and Saturday last week in Abu Dhabi in their first in-person negotiations on a plan being pushed by Trump. The United States says both sides are close to a deal, but they have so far been unable to find a compromise on the key issue of territory in a postwar settlement, according to Kyiv. The Kremlin on Friday said Putin had agreed to a pause on striking Kyiv, ending Sunday, following a request by Trump.
Source: The Defense Post
