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Putin and White House envoys conclude talks on Ukraine

From ABC Color · () Spanish

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

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  • Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held three hours of talks in Moscow on reviving stalled peace efforts for Ukraine.
  • The meeting’s results remain unknown, while the envoys are due to travel to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
  • Putin again rejected a prolonged ceasefire and said he would consider a trilateral summit only if it were intended to sign a final peace agreement.

Vladimir Putin and White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner concluded three hours of talks at the Kremlin on Saturday as Washington sought to revive the stalled peace process in Ukraine. The results of the meeting were not immediately known.

The discussions focused on what U.S. President Donald Trump has called a “proposal to end the war.” Local media reported that the delegation, including the two American mediators, had already left the Kremlin after the meeting.

Welcome. Nice to meet you

· Vladimir PutinPutin used the English greeting at the start of his meeting with the U.S. envoys.

Putin opened the talks by welcoming his interlocutors in English, saying, “Welcome. Nice to meet you”. He said the situation under discussion was difficult and offered Trump his “best wishes” and “words of gratitude.” Putin also said he understood that the U.S. president faced a complicated situation, but continued trying to help resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

proposal to end the war

· Donald TrumpTrump’s description of the proposal carried by Witkoff and Kushner.

The meeting was the first between Putin and the two envoys since Jan. 22. It came less than two weeks after a visit to Moscow by CIA Director John Ratcliffe. After the Kremlin talks, Witkoff and Kushner were scheduled to travel to Ukraine for their first meeting in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Trump said the envoys were carrying a proposal to end the war, adding that he had “ended eight wars.” Putin had agreed this week to receive Witkoff and Kushner, but again rejected a prolonged ceasefire. He has also rejected a possible trilateral summit involving the United States and Ukraine unless it would be used to sign a final peace agreement. Russian-Ukrainian negotiations have remained stalled since February, and Russia and the United States now consider understandings reached at their August 2025 summit in Alaska to have lost their validity.

ended eight wars

· Donald TrumpTrump’s claim about his record while discussing the proposal.
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Originally published by ABC Color 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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