{"id":88515,"date":"2026-11-12T13:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/88515\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:04:18","slug":"witkoff-kushner-meet-putin-in-moscow-after-abu-dhabi-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/88515\/","title":{"rendered":"Witkoff, Kushner meet Putin in Moscow after Abu Dhabi peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: The story is being updated.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Nov. 12, following two days of peace talks on Ukraine that failed to produce a meaningful breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin aides Yuri Ushakov, Kirill Dmitriev, and Vladimir Medinsky \u2014 who lead the Russian delegation to Abu Dhabi \u2014 are present at the meeting, Russian state news agency TASS reported.<\/p>\n<p>After Kushner and Witkoff finish their trip to Moscow, President <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> is set to receive a <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/zelensky-arrives-in-dublin-for-european-political-community-summit-expects-a-debrief-from-witkoff-kushner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debrief<\/a> in Ireland during a separate visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We see some openings and some opportunities,&#8221; Kushner told the press, adding that the two envoys would also travel to Dublin to debrief Zelensky, who will be attending a Nov. 13 informal meeting of EU leaders.<\/p>\n<p>No ceasefire or peace deal was reached at the first U.S. brokered peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in months.<\/p>\n<p>The Abu Dhabi talks did bring an agreement on a new exchange of <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/prisoners-of-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prisoners of war<\/a>, Rustem Umerov, head of the Ukrainian delegation, said.<\/p>\n<p>Steps toward a broader peace deal and Ukraine&#8217;s post-war reconstruction were also discussed at the talks, Umerov added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first step \u2014 to end the war and ensure security guarantees for Ukraine,&#8221; he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note: The story is being updated. U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-88515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moscow","tag-moscow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}