Putin Expected to Meet US Envoys Witkoff and Kushner Today

Dragon Media News Desk

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet US special presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow on Thursday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.The meeting is expected to take place in the first half of the day.

The meeting follows trilateral talks between Russia, the United States and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, TASS reported. Both Witkoff and Kushner took part in the talks.

Kushner said the US negotiating team planned to travel to Kyiv after its visit to Moscow. Witkoff, who initially served as the sole US representative in efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict after President Donald Trump took office, is making his tenth visit to Russia in the past two years. It is Kushner’s second visit.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Putin would first receive a briefing from the Russian delegation that attended the Abu Dhabi talks, then hear the US envoys’ assessment. Putin would decide Russia’s approach to a settlement after those briefings, Lavrov said.

Lavrov added that Russia’s position would remain focused on achieving the objectives of what Moscow calls its “special military operation.”