Kushner and Witkoff to meet Putin after ‘one of the toughest’ rounds of talks with Russians

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Special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will meet with Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin on Thursday after "one of the toughest" rounds of peace talks in Abu Dhabi to end the…

Special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will meet with Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin on Thursday after “one of the toughest” rounds of peace talks in Abu Dhabi to end the war in Ukraine.

Negotiators from the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia huddled in Abu Dhabi for day two of the trilateral talks on ways to end the war, and officials hinted that tough talks are ahead on some of the biggest sticking points.

“These were very substantive. They were some pretty tough discussions after, I think, almost eight months of not being together,” Kushner told reporters afterward. “The conversations were very thorough. We covered all the relevant issues.”

One breakthrough that came from the meeting was a proposal to have one of the largest releases of prisoners of war — with the exact figure set to be finalized during the meeting with Putin in Moscow on Thursday.

The two diplomatic gurus are also expected to press Putin on converting the trilateral talks into multilateral ones and bring European negotiators into the fold.

“We’ve relayed to President Putin directly several times and to his team that the only way to get this done is to have them by our side,” Kushner explained. “I think that they’re receptive to it.”

“Hopefully tomorrow in Moscow, Steve and I will be successful, and President Putin will give the blessing for that to occur.”

Following their meeting with Putin, Kushner and Witkoff are expected to trek over to Dublin to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

During the talks on Wednesday, the negotiators made progress on discussions about security guarantees for Ukraine and how to establish a de-escalation mechanism after the war wraps up.

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