US envoy Witkoff announces new round of Ukraine peace talks
US President's special envoy Steve Witkoff announced preparations for a new round of talks to end the war in Ukraine, following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Witkoff stated a next meeting is already planned, without specifying the date or participants. Zelensky confirmed another meeting is upcoming, potentially in the UAE or Switzerland. The announcement came after Witkoff and Jared Kushner held talks with Putin in the Kremlin on November 12. The envoys traveled to Dublin to meet Zelensky after the Kremlin discussions. A trilateral US-Ukraine-Russia meeting in Abu Dhabi on November 11 resulted in an agreement on a large-scale prisoner exchange. Kushner expressed hope that Putin would agree to expand the peace talks format to include Europe.