Kushner enters Ukraine peace talks as Trump eyes securing safeguards against another Russian invasion
UKRAINE'S ZELENSKYY OPEN TO FREEZING FRONT LINES IN CEASEFIRE WITH RUSSIA Trump also suggested in a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday that Ukraine’s borders could ultimately change under a peace agreement, saying the country could emerge from the war with "a little bit different shape." U.S.
Key points
- Russia and Ukraine will finally return to the negotiating table Tuesday for their first trilateral peace talks with the U.S.
- The Trump administration has asked Russia to accept an "Article Four and an Article Five-like security guarantee" for Ukraine that would be "effectively very similar to NATO," a U.S.
- Witkoff and Kushner, the son-in-law of the president, are also considering returning to meet Putin and Zelenskyy soon, depending on the outcome of the Abu Dhabi talks.
RUSSIA'S NEIGHBOR REVEALS PERSONAL APPEALS TO TRUMP AS US WEIGHS NATO TROOP PULLBACK IN EUROPE A lot has happened on the geopolitical stage since the latest trilateral talks happened in Geneva, Switzerland, in February.
Additional details
- Instead, officials say the goal is to clarify where each side stands, identify the remaining gaps and begin exploring potential compromises that can ultimately be taken back to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy.
- Officials believe neither Russia nor Ukraine will make the concessions needed to settle the territorial dispute until each understands what the security landscape will look like after the fighting stops.
- itself would provide, the official said, describing an American guarantee as a "really, really big deal" that would ultimately have to be worked out between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- negotiators will meet with national security officials from Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy, along with NATO, the European Union and Ukraine, to discuss security guarantees and a broader postwar security architecture.
- envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will sit down with Ukrainian intelligence chief Rustem Umerov and Putin aide and veteran negotiator Vladimir Medinsky in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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