President Vladimir Putin has met with Steve Witkoff six times, and will likely accommodate his request for more talks on Ukraine, the diplomat has said<\/p>\n
Moscow is open to further contact with US President Donald Trump\u2019s senior envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
\nSpeaking to reporters on Wednesday, Lavrov noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already met with Witkoff six times. \u201cI am sure that if they express… interest [for another meeting], then this interest will be met with understanding,\u201d he added.
\nAlso on Wednesday, Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, claimed that Witkoff and Kushner expect to meet with the Russian president, possibly by the end of the month. According to the publication, the plans have yet to be finalized. If the talks take place, Witkoff and Kushner will present Washington\u2019s latest draft plans for settling the Ukraine conflict to Putin, it added.
\nTrump\u2019s senior negotiators last visited Moscow in early December 2025. Later that month, Witkoff and Kushner met with Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Miami. Both sides characterized the talks as \u201cconstructive.\u201d<\/p>\n
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US negotiators concurrently held a separate round of talks with Kiev\u2019s representatives and officials from several European countries in Florida.
\nUS-mediated efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict have intensified in recent months, after Trump\u2019s initial peace plan was leaked to the media in November 2025. The roadmap reportedly envisaged Kiev ceding the remainder of Donbass to Moscow, as well as renouncing its NATO membership aspirations and capping the size of its military, among other points.
\nLast month, Ukraine and its European backers presented a 20-point counter-proposal, which has significantly watered down or distorted the original US-drafted proposal.
\nIn late December, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stressed that the framework promoted by Vladimir Zelensky \u201cis radically different\u2026 from the 27-point [proposal] we were working on with the US side.\u201d He noted that Moscow is still \u201cfully ready\u201d to resolve the Ukraine conflict as long as its core security concerns are addressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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