Jared Kushner said he and Steve Witkoff will travel from the Abu Dhabi talks to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin, then to Dublin to meet Volodymyr Zelensky. The announced sequence gives the US mediation effort a defined next move beyond the talks now under way.
ANSA reported that Kushner and Witkoff are participating in the Abu Dhabi negotiations. Kushner said the envoys would go to Moscow the following day and then to Dublin. The report describes the meetings as planned by the US envoys; it contains no public response from Putin or Zelensky.
The itinerary matters because it links the Abu Dhabi round to proposed direct contacts with both leaders. It does not set out an agenda, meeting times, detailed venues, a joint document or commitments from either side. The route therefore marks a diplomatic step by the US team, rather than an announced ceasefire, peace agreement or security arrangement.
The European dimension remains contested. Russia's chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said in Abu Dhabi that the Russian delegation had had no communication with the European team because, in his view, Europe's position was unclear. That is Medinsky's assessment, and the supplied ANSA reporting includes no European reply.
A schedule alone cannot settle the issues confronting the parties. But Kushner's announcement identifies the next channel: US envoys plan to take the discussions from Abu Dhabi first to Putin in Moscow and then to Zelensky in Dublin.
Sources
- ANSA · Top news · Source date: 2026-11-11
- ANSA · Top news · Source date: 2026-11-11
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