Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Friday that it knows of no agreement to bring European countries into the next round of Ukraine peace talks, directly contradicting Jared Kushner’s account after his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Dublin.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the issue had not been raised in Moscow talks with Steve Witkoff and Kushner, Digi24 reported, citing DPA. Kushner had said Russia and Ukraine agreed to involve Europeans in the next round and that no deal could be concluded without Europeans at the table.
The clash is more than a dispute over wording. European participation may be a political aim, but it cannot be treated as an agreed negotiating arrangement while the parties offer incompatible public accounts and no shared format has been announced.
Digi24 also reported, citing Russia’s state agency RIA Novosti, that no Foreign Ministry representative attended the Moscow meeting with President Vladimir Putin. That attendance detail does not establish what other Russian officials discussed; it does, however, narrow Zakharova’s statement to the ministry’s own knowledge of those talks.
The supplied report gives no date, venue, agenda or final European participant list for a next round. Until the parties set out compatible terms for representation and procedure, Kushner’s statement describes a proposed direction for the process, while Moscow’s Foreign Ministry says it knows of no agreement behind it.
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- Digi24 · Source date: 2026-11-13
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Witkoff-Putin meeting: Europe’s role in Ukraine talks still lacks a Kremlin-set format