As Witkoff and Kushner have been negotiating on the Kremlin, Zelensky mentioned he was prepared for “a substantive dialog”.
Saturday’s talks in Moscow lasted three hours and have been held behind closed doorways in Putin’s official residence within the coronary heart of the Russian capital, in accordance with Russian state media.
Particulars are nonetheless rising, however each side have given broadly optimistic remarks with out going into specifics.
Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov described the talks as “constructive, extraordinarily frank”.
“The talks weren’t restricted to an change of views on resolving the Ukrainian disaster – financial points and potential main, mutually helpful Russian-American tasks have been mentioned in appreciable element,” he mentioned.
Ushakov additionally mentioned “word was product of the Russian military’s tangible advances within the fight zone” and that there was acknowledgement that talks wanted to deal with “the foundation causes of the battle”.
Regardless of an escalation of Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities together with Kyiv, Russian floor forces have made very gradual advances for a lot of the battle, incurring monumental casualties. Russia nonetheless controls about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory – areas that it seized again in 2022.
Kushner and Witkoff have visited Russia a number of occasions however given Ukraine’s airspace has been closed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, it’s not clear how they are going to be travelling to Kyiv from Moscow.
The talks come after Russia and Ukraine have intensified aerial assaults in current months.
Ukraine says it has struggled to repel ballistic missile assaults resulting from an absence of interceptor missiles, whereas Kyiv has centered its strikes on Russian financial infrastructure targets, notably oil installations.
