US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin after two days of talks in Abu Dhabi that produced an agreement on a prisoner exchange.
US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian news agencies reported. Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev met the two American representatives at Vnukovo Airport, according to Interfax. TASS also confirmed that a convoy carrying Dmitriev, Witkoff and Kushner left the airport after their arrival in the Russian capital.
The visit follows two days of US-mediated peace talks in Abu Dhabi involving Russian, Ukrainian and American delegations. The talks ended without a major breakthrough on broader peace issues, but the two sides agreed to a prisoner exchange. Kushner described the talks as "a good first step" and said there was no trust between the two sides.
"One of the positives is we agreed that we're going to have the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, which we're going to finalize the numbers tomorrow," Kushner said after the Abu Dhabi talks ended.
Kushner and Witkoff are expected to meet with Putin in Moscow and then travel to Dublin to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is attending European meetings. Zelenskyy said there may be a "window of opportunity" to bring an end to the fighting and said he would like the Americans to return to Dublin with specifics from their meeting with Putin.
Russia and Ukraine continued exchanging attacks overnight. Russia's Defense Ministry said it had targeted military and energy facilities in Ukraine, as well as a munitions warehouse in the capital Kyiv. Explosions were heard in Kyiv in the early hours of the morning, according to a Reuters witness. Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russia had shot down five drones heading towards the capital. Drones were also reportedly shot down in other Russian regions, including Rostov and Tula.
The Moscow meeting is part of the Trump administration's stepped-up efforts to resolve the conflict, with European participation in future talks still under discussion.
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