Trump's envoys to travel to Moscow as Abu Dhabi talks end without breakthrough

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"We see some openings and some opportunities," Jared Kushner told the press, adding that the U.S. envoys would then travel to Dublin to debrief President Volodymyr Zelensky, who will be attending an informal meeting of EU leaders scheduled for Nov. 13.

The second day of trilateral peace talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S. concluded in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 11, with U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff announcing they would travel to Moscow the next day to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"We see some openings and some opportunities," Jared Kushner told the press, adding that they would then travel to Dublin to debrief President Volodymyr Zelensky, who will be attending an informal meeting of EU leaders scheduled for Nov. 13.

Talking to reporters, Kushner said one of the goals of the Moscow visit is to secure Putin's "blessing" to expand the discussions into a multilateral format involving European representatives.

"We've relayed to President Putin directly several times and to his team that the only way to get this done is to have (the Europeans) by our side," Kushner said.

"I believe that hopefully tomorrow in Moscow, Steve and I will be successful, and President Putin will give the blessing for that to occur."Kushner also urged the EU to adopt a more coordinated approach to any future involvement in peace negotiations, echoing a recent warning from Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who said that failure to do so would "condemn Europe to irrelevance."

"If Europe could identify one person to speak on their behalf, that would be a bigger achievement than getting the Russians to include them in the negotiations," Kushner said.

The two-day talks were the first trilateral meeting since February and come as Ukraine braces for another winter of Russian attacks against its energy grid, with Moscow's full-scale war soon to hit its five-year mark.

Rustem Umerov, head of the Ukrainian delegation, said the talks brought an agreement on a new exchange of prisoners of war (POWs). The parties also discussed steps toward a broader peace deal and Ukraine's post-war reconstruction, he added.

"The first step — to end the war and ensure security guarantees for Ukraine," Umerov said on X, signaling "opportunities"…

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