The US president\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, will once again join Washington\u2019s delegation<\/p>\n
Washington\u2019s delegation at the trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine talks in Geneva next week will include American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing a source briefed on the matter.
\nOn Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the trilateral negotiations to settle the Ukraine conflict will take place on February 17 and 18 in Geneva. No Western European nations will be represented, he added.
\nRussia\u2019s delegation will be headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who has already participated in several rounds of Russian-Ukrainian talks.
\nIn a statement on Friday, Ukraine\u2019s national security chief Rustem Umerov announced that he would again be leading Kiev\u2019s delegation. The other members will include Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s new chief of staff and former military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov, general staff chief Andrey Gnatov, and several other senior officials.<\/p>\n
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According to Reuters, Witkoff and Kushner will attend the three-way talks as part of the US delegation in the afternoon, after participating in negotiations with an Iranian delegation that morning. Neither was present at the last round, which took place in the UAE last week. Moscow described it as \u201cconstructive but difficult,\u201d while Witkoff noted that the diplomatic effort was gleaning \u201ctangible results.\u201d
\nAccording to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the trilateral talks have trimmed down the range of issues between the sides.
\n\u201cThe bad news is they’ve been narrowed to the hardest questions to answer,\u201d he said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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One of the biggest remaining points of contention between Russia and Ukraine is territories. Moscow has insisted that a stable peace can only be achieved if Kiev withdraws soldiers from any territories it still controls in Donbass \u2013 which voted to join Russia in 2022 \u2013 among other key demands.
\nMoscow had agreed to several compromises and settled on a realistic peace roadmap after Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s summit with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Alaska last year, according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.<\/p>\n
However, this peace drive has been systematically undermined by Kiev and its Western European backers since then, he stated on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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