Putin Meets Trump Envoys Witkoff and Kushner in Kremlin After Ukraine Talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on Thursday, following trilateral talks on Ukraine held in Abu Dhabi. The meeting included Putin's aides Yuri Ushakov and Vladimir Medinsky, as well as Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. The American negotiators arrived in Moscow from Abu Dhabi, where two days of closed-door trilateral discussions on ending the war in Ukraine took place with Russian, Ukrainian, and US delegations. Putin welcomed the envoys, asked them to convey gratitude to President Donald Trump for facilitating Russia-Ukraine contacts, and thanked First Lady Melania Trump for resolving a humanitarian issue. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the meeting had no time limit.