NewzRussian President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday to resume three-way negotiations next month with Washington and Kyiv aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin official said.The Russian leader has agreed “in principle” to resume the talks after Nov. 10, Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters following a meeting in St. President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff.The talks will focus on “building a security system for Russia and Ukraine after the conflict ends,” Ushakov said.Witkoff's talks with Putin about Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine took place as Trump pushed Kyiv to make a deal that stops the fighting.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has insisted that only a summit of leaders can break the impasse.
The two armies remain locked on the battlefield, and the two countries pummel each other with daily long-range strikes.Representatives of the three countries held three rounds of negotiations early this year, meeting twice in Abu Dhabi in January and February, followed by further talks in Geneva in February.However, little progress was reported beyond exchanges of prisoners of war as Moscow and Kyiv stuck to their basic demands.Latest proposals to end the war have little of value, Kremlin saysThe discussion in St. Petersburg lasted about three hours, the Kremlin said, and came a day after Witkoff met with Zelenskyy and some European leaders in Norway's capital, Oslo.The proposals from the Oslo meeting “contained little of real value in the context of resolving the Ukrainian crisis,” Ushakov said.However, he later told Russian state TV that while Moscow isn’t “fully satisfied” with the Oslo proposals, they are a step in the right direction.Witkoff’s meetings suggested leaders are keen to bring new momentum to U.S.-led peace efforts, more than 4½ years after the war began. Efforts by the Trump administration since early last year to end the war have made no significant progress.Zelenskyy said freezing the conflict in Ukraine was the “minimum” required from Russia to bring about an end to the war.“Right now, we have to freeze, and I think this is (the) real way to end this war,” Zelenskyy said in an interview broadcast Wednesday on Fox News.Witkoff sees ‘some degree of momentum’ in peace effortsWitkoff and Putin met at St.
Petersburg’s Constantine Palace, with Ushakov and Russian presid… Russian President Vladimir Putin and US envoy Steve Witkoff attend a meeting at the Constantine Palace in St Petersburg. (EPA Images pic)SAINT PETERSBURG: The Ukrainian and European approaches to ending the war in Ukraine that US envoy Steve Witkoff relayed to President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday lacked much substance, the Kremlin said.The Kremlin added that Russia was ready to resume three-way talks with Ukraine and the US in November.Witkoff held more than three hours of talks with Putin in Saint Petersburg on Wednesday, as Washington seeks to reinvigorate long-stalled efforts aimed at ending the Ukraine war.The conflict, which is grinding through its fifth year, has become Europe's deadliest since World War II."Steve Witkoff briefed Vladimir Putin on the substance of the talks held in Oslo," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters, referring to talks Witkoff held in Norway with Ukrainian and European officials on Tuesday."He mentioned some new aspects in the approaches of the Europeans and Kyiv...
but there wasn't really much substance in them.""Our president informed Steve Witkoff that we are, in principle, ready to resume the mentioned (trilateral) talks," he added, saying they could take place in mid-November.These talks would focus on "building security ... after the end of the conflict," Ushakov added. Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday to resume trilateral negotiations with Washington and Kyiv on ending the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin official said.The Russian leader has agreed “in principle” to resume the talks after Nov.
President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff.The trilateral talks will focus on “building a security system for Russia and Ukraine after the conflict ends,” Ushakov said.Witkoff's talks with Putin about Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine came as Trump pushes Kyiv to make a deal that stops the fighting.Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has insisted only a summit of leaders can break the impasse. The two armies remain locked on the battlefield and they pummel each other with daily long-range strikes.Representatives of the three countries held three rounds of trilateral negotiations early this year, meeting twice in Abu Dhabi in January and February, followed by further talks in Geneva in February.However, there was little progress beyond exchanges of prisoners of war as Moscow and Kyiv stuck to their basic demands.The discussion in St. Petersburg’s Constantine Palace, with Ushakov and Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev also at the table.
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, joined the discussion via a video link, Ushakov said.Before the meeting, Witkoff said that “there is some degree of momentum” in talks.He thanked Putin for lifting Russia…
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