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Putin and White House envoys conclude Ukraine negotiations in Moscow

From El Deber · () 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 concluded three hours of talks in the Kremlin aimed at reviving stalled Ukraine peace efforts.
  • The outcome of the discussions was not immediately known, and the envoys were 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 was intended to sign a final peace agreement.

Vladimir Putin and White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held three hours of Kremlin talks on Saturday in an effort to revive the stalled Ukraine peace process. The discussions ended without an immediate announcement of results.

Welcome. Nice to meet you

· Vladimir PutinPutin's English greeting to the U.S. envoys at the start of the Kremlin meeting.

The meeting marked the first such encounter since January 22 and came less than two weeks after CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow. After leaving the Kremlin, Witkoff and Kushner were expected to travel to Ukraine for their first meeting in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Putin opened the meeting by acknowledging the difficulty of the issues under discussion. He greeted the envoys in English, saying “Welcome. Nice to meet you,” and said he wanted to convey his “best wishes” and “words of gratitude” to U.S. President Donald Trump.

best wishes

· Vladimir PutinPutin said he wanted to convey these wishes to Donald Trump.

Putin said Trump faced a complicated situation but continued trying to help resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Trump said his envoys were carrying “a proposal to end the war,” adding that he had ended eight wars.

words of gratitude

· Vladimir PutinPutin said he wanted to convey his thanks to Donald Trump.

Putin has agreed to receive the U.S. envoys but has continued to reject a prolonged ceasefire. He has also opposed a possible summit involving Russia, the United States and Ukraine unless it would produce a final peace agreement. The article says Russian-Ukrainian negotiations have been stalled since February, when a U.S. and Israeli military operation against Iran began. It also says Russia and the United States consider understandings reached at an August 2025 summit in Alaska obsolete, including a reported Russian willingness to freeze the southern front if Ukraine ceded the entire Donbas.

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

· Donald TrumpTrump's description of the proposal carried by his envoys.
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Originally published by El Deber 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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