No compromise version of the peace plan to end the war in Ukraine was found during talks between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday, the Kremlin said. Yuri Ushakov, a top Kremlin aide, called the meeting “very useful, constructive, and highly substantive,” but said a “compromise option has not yet been found,” according to the state news agency RIA Novosti. He added that some of the U.S. proposals looked “more or less acceptable,” but said that some of the wording “does not suit us.”
The meeting between Putin, Witkoff and President Donald’s Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner lasted close to five hours. Ushakov said that the Russian side had expressed a “critical and even negative attitude” towards a number of the proposals in the plan, and added that the “territorial issue is the most important” for both Russia and the U.S.
What To Know
- Witkoff and Putin met in Moscow to discuss the revised version of Trump’s peace plan following U.S.-Ukraine negotiations on an earlier draft proposal that Kyiv viewed as too strongly weighted in Russia’s favor.
- Ushakov said that Moscow was sent four more documents, in additional to Trump’s original 27-point peace plan. He did not outline their contents.
- Ushakov said that the meeting explored “huge prospects for economic cooperation” between Russia and the United States. He added that greetings were conveyed between Trump and Putin.
- He said that no further meetings between Trump and Putin had currently been planned. “The possibility of a meeting between Putin and Trump will depend on the progress achieved towards a settlement,” he said.
- The meeting came as Putin claimed a significant victory in Ukraine, saying his forces had taken full control of Pokrovsk in the east, a logistics center for supplying the Ukrainian forces.
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