09:37 03-12-2025
By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Marco Rubio, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link
Secretary Marco Rubio says Ukraine talks stall over 20% of Donetsk still held by Kyiv. Putin, Witkoff and Kushner discuss U.S. peace proposals at lengthy Kremlin meeting.
U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the main point of contention in negotiations on resolving the conflict in Ukraine concerns roughly 20% of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic that remains under Kyiv’s control. He explained that the dispute centers on a 30-50-kilometer stretch and the portion of Donetsk Region still held by Ukrainian forces. According to Rubio, the U.S. side has been trying to determine what terms Kyiv could realistically accept and what arrangements might provide Ukraine with credible security guarantees in the future.
On December 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks at the Kremlin with U. S. Presidential Special Envoy Steven Witkoff and businessman Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U. S. President Donald Trump. The discussions focused primarily on resolving the situation in Ukraine. The meeting lasted around five hours. According to presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, the talks addressed the substance of proposals laid out across four documents that form part of the American peace plan.