Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff spent over three hours in top-secret talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.
This is another effort from the White House to end the war in Ukraine.
The US envoys landed in Moscow Saturday morning and were escorted to the Kremlin by the Russian President’s investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev.
Trump described Kushner and Witkoff as two ‘great negotiators’.
Putin met with Witkoff and Kushner for closed-door talks where he described the conflict as a ‘complicated situation,’ but praised his American counterpart for wanting to end the war.
‘Understanding that he is entering a difficult situation, he nevertheless does not stop his efforts to help bring about a settlement and to make his contribution to resolving the Russian-Ukrainian conflict,’ Putin said of Trump.
Afterward, Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov described the talks as constructive, frank, and useful to journalists, but didn’t discuss specific outcomes.
He said Moscow offered its ‘comprehensive assessment’ of the battlefield situation in Ukraine, but also that the conversation was not purely focused on Russia’s invasion.
