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A five-hour marathon meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, US special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner failed to make any major breakthroughs in efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Witkoff and Kushner arrived in Moscow on Tuesday for talks with the Kremlin leader following Sunday’s meeting with key members of the Ukrainian delegation on the revised peace plan.
Putin’s foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov, who also attended the Vitkoff-Kushner meeting with Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev, told reporters that the talks were “extremely useful, constructive and concrete.” readout issued By the Kremlin.
“We especially discussed regional issues, without which the crisis cannot be resolved, as we see it. Of course, we also talked about the broad prospects for future economic interaction between our countries,” Ushakov said.
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Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Yuri Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev arrive for talks with President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin Senate Palace in Moscow on December 2, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
He said the Russian side received four documents from Witkoff and Kushner during the meeting, one of which contained 27 points, but declined to elaborate on what they contained.
The original leaked 28-point plan was criticized by European leaders as being too favorable to Moscow and was later scrapped.
The territory issue was an important part of the discussions, according to Ushakov, who said no agreement had been reached yet.
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“However, some US proposals appear to be more or less acceptable. Nevertheless, they require further discussion. Some of the terms we have been offered are not suitable for us. In other words, the work will continue,” the senior Russian diplomat said.
President Vladimir Putin talks with Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Yuri Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev at the Kremlin’s Senate Palace in Moscow on December 2, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
A major sticking point in the talks has been the territorial demands of Russia, which wants Ukraine to leave all of Donbass, including the parts not currently controlled by its forces.
Institute for the Study of War, a non-partisan public policy research organization tracks the front line Russo-Ukraine War Russian forces were said to have advanced into Sumy Oblast and near Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk and Lyubyapol.
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Ukraine’s joint military task force reported on Telegram that its forces still in control Most of the city of Kupyansk, although Russian forces maintain isolated groups in the northern parts.
An evacuation van drives through the largely destroyed frontline city of Kupyansk in Ukraine on January 6, 2025. (Wolfgang Schwann/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on wednesday Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustam Umerov was preparing for a meeting in Brussels with national security advisers to European leaders to brief his colleagues on the Witkoff-Kushner meeting with Putin.
“After Brussels, Rustam Umerov and Andrey Hnatov will begin preparations for the meeting with President Trump’s envoys to the United States,” Zelensky said. “As always, Ukraine will work constructively in the pursuit of genuine peace. I look forward to a new report following the results of today’s meetings in Europe.”
