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Putin and White House envoys conclude talks on Ukraine

From El Comercio · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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News Named sources Ongoing story
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin held three hours of talks in the Kremlin with White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on reviving stalled Ukraine peace efforts.
  • Russian presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov called the discussions constructive, but no results were made public.
  • The envoys were due to travel to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, while Putin continued to reject a prolonged ceasefire and a three-way summit unless it produced a final peace agreement.

Three hours of talks in the Kremlin ended without a public agreement on how to end the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin met U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Sept. 5, 2026, in an effort to revive a stalled peace process.

Constructive.

· Yuri UshakovThe Russian presidential adviser’s assessment of the three-hour Kremlin talks.

The delegation later left the Kremlin, according to local media. Russian presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov described the meeting as “constructive” and said the American envoys had presented several ideas for possible ways to reach a settlement. He said they had again expressed their interest in ending hostilities quickly.

Putin opened the meeting by acknowledging the difficulty of the situation. He welcomed the envoys in English and said he wanted to convey his best wishes and thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump. Putin said Trump faced a complicated situation but continued trying to help resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

The situation we are going to discuss today is, of course, not easy.

· Vladimir PutinPutin’s opening remarks as he received the U.S. envoys.

The meeting was the first in the Kremlin since Jan. 22, 2026, and came less than two weeks after CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow. It was also the first time Witkoff and Kushner had traveled to Kyiv, where they were expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Welcome. Nice to meet you.

· Vladimir PutinPutin greeted Witkoff and Kushner in English at the start of the meeting.

Trump had said the envoys were carrying a proposal to end the war. Putin, however, again rejected a prolonged ceasefire and continued to oppose a trilateral summit with the United States and Ukraine unless it was held to sign a final peace agreement. The negotiations have been stalled since February, and both Moscow and Washington consider understandings reached at their August 2025 summit in Alaska no longer valid.

They are carrying a proposal to end the war. Because I ended eight wars.

· Donald TrumpTrump’s characterization of the proposal his envoys took to Moscow.
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Originally published by El Comercio in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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