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Trump Envoys Take Proposal to Restart Russia-Ukraine Talks

From La Vanguardia · () Spanish

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

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  • Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow with a proposal from Donald Trump aimed at ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.
  • The envoys were expected to meet Vladimir Putin and then travel to Kyiv to see Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
  • The trip seeks to revive U.S. mediation suspended after Israel and the United States began attacking Iran, but Ukrainian officials reportedly expect previously rejected ideas rather than an immediate breakthrough.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow carrying Donald Trump's proposal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. Their mission is designed to restart a mediation effort that stalled after the United States turned its attention to the war in the Middle East.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was expected to receive the two American envoys on Saturday. Their aircraft landed shortly before midday at Vnukovo airport, where Kirill Dmitriev, the Kremlin's special envoy for economic cooperation with the United States, met them. Dmitriev has held numerous meetings with Witkoff in both Russia and the United States over the past 18 months.

After meeting Putin, Witkoff and Kushner planned to travel to Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump said on Friday that his envoys were carrying “a proposal to put an end to the war. Because I put an end to eight wars.” Asked whether the peace proposal was new, he answered: “No.”

a proposal to put an end to the war. Because I put an end to eight wars.

· Donald TrumpTrump described what his envoys were carrying to Moscow.

The U.S. mediation began soon after Trump took office for his second term in January 2025 but was abruptly interrupted on Feb. 28, when Israel and the United States began bombing Iran. With Washington focused on that region, the White House stopped giving the Ukrainian file the same attention.

The journey has not generated much expectation of an immediate major breakthrough. Bloomberg reported in Kyiv that Ukrainian officials believe the Americans may again present ideas Moscow has already rejected, particularly a proposal to turn Ukraine's Donbas region into a free economic zone. Moscow says any peaceful settlement must address what it calls the underlying causes of the crisis. Putin previously demanded that Ukraine abandon its bid to join NATO and withdraw completely from Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, including areas still held by Ukrainian forces. Kyiv rejects those conditions as equivalent to surrender. The American mediators sought security guarantees from both sides before restarting contacts.

No.

· Donald TrumpTrump answered when asked whether the peace proposal was new.
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Originally published by La Vanguardia 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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