US Envoys Witkoff, Kushner Arrive at Kremlin
/ Go to the mediabankUS Presidential Envoy Steven Witkoff, US President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev outside the Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow.
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The motorcade of US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in the Kremlin, where will they have talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Thursday.Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said on Thursday that he had held preliminary consultations with US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner before their meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.»Of course, they were preliminary,» Ushakov told reporters, when asked about holding preliminary consultations with the US delegation.Earlier in the day, US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine conflict.Russian presidential envoy for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev arrived at Vnukovo Airport to meet US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner had landed. Two days of trilateral talks involving delegations from Russia, the US and Ukraine concluded in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. Kushner earlier said that he would travel to Moscow on Thursday together with Witkoff to discuss the outcome of the negotiations and present proposals that the US side had previously discussed with Kiev and European officials.Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said the meeting between President Vladimir Putin, Kushner and Witkoff would take place on Thursday morning.Vladimir Medinsky, who led the Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi, said the central topic of the talks was the architecture of European security. He also noted that the parties had agreed on a new large-scale prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, with the details to be announced shortly.Representatives from several EU countries were also present in Abu Dhabi. However, Medinsky said the Russian delegation had no contact with them, stressing that the negotiations were strictly trilateral.
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