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To Ukraine on Sunday, 6 September, arrived the president of the United States Donald Trump’s envoys — Steve Vitkoff and Jared Kushner — after a visit to the Russian Federation the day before as part of Washington’s diplomatic efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, Kyiv Independent reports, citing sources.
The day before they held more than three hours of talks in Moscow with the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, which Kremlin officials called “substantive.”
“We are interested in bringing the war to an end. Peace is needed. Security guarantees are needed. A worthy postwar peace is needed. Our proposals are ready,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on X after a meeting with the Ukrainian negotiating team ahead of a meeting with Trump’s representatives.
Vitkoff and Kushner are making their first, long-delayed visit to the Ukrainian capital against the backdrop of new U.S.-led efforts to broker a settlement to end Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.
Negotiations effectively stalled earlier this year as Moscow continued to refuse a ceasefire and demanded Kyiv cede Donbas and abandon NATO membership aspirations.
The Kremlin has given no signals of a willingness to relinquish its territorial demands, while Kyiv warned that Russian forces are preparing to escalate strikes on Ukrainian cities and the energy sector in winter.
The Moscow talks, it would appear, did not yield a breakthrough, as Putin stated that he expects Russia to achieve its goals and reiterated that Moscow seeks removal of the “root causes of the war.”
A White House spokesperson told reporters that during the Moscow meeting the sides “discussed concrete plans for the next steps to be announced in the coming weeks,” without divulging details.
To be continued…
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