No Ukraine peace deal after lengthy five-hour Putin-Witkoff-Kushner meeting

A marathon five-hour gathering betwixt Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner failed to output immoderate large breakthroughs successful efforts to extremity Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine.

Witkoff and Kushner arrived successful Moscow Tuesday for talks with the Kremlin person pursuing a Sunday gathering with cardinal members of the Ukrainian delegation connected a revised bid plan.

Putin’s foreign-policy adjutant Yuri Ushakov, who besides attended the Witkoff-Kushner gathering alongside Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, told reporters aft that the conversations were "extremely useful, constructive and substantive," according to a readout released by the Kremlin.

"We specifically discussed territorial issues, without which the situation cannot beryllium settled, arsenic we spot it. Of course, we besides talked astir the wide prospects for aboriginal economical enactment betwixt our countries," said Ushakov.

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Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Yuri Ushakov, and Kirill Dmitriev get for talks with President Vladimir Putin astatine the Kremlin’s Senate Palace successful Moscow connected Dec. 2, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

He added that the Russian broadside received 4 documents from Witkoff and Kushner during the meeting, including 1 that consisted of 27 points, but declined to spell into item of what they contained.

The archetypal leaked 28-point program was criticized by European leaders arsenic excessively favorable to Moscow and aboriginal whittled down.

The contented of territory was a cardinal portion of the discussion, according to Ushakov, who said nary compromise had yet been found.

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"However, immoderate of the American proposals look much oregon little acceptable. They do, nevertheless, necessitate further discussion. Certain wording we person been offered is not suitable for us. In different words, the enactment volition continue," said the elder Russian diplomat.

President Vladimir Putin engages successful talks with Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Yuri Ushakov, and Kirill Dmitriev astatine the Kremlin’s Senate Palace successful Moscow connected December 2, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

A cardinal sticking constituent successful negotiations has been territorial demands from Russia, who wants Ukraine to relinquish the full Donbas, including parts its subject does not presently control. 

The Institute for the Study of War, a nonpartisan nationalist argumentation probe enactment that tracks the frontlines of the Russia-Ukraine war, said Russian forces person precocious successful Sumy Oblast and adjacent Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk and Huliaipole.

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Ukraine’s Joint Forces Task Force reported connected Telegram that its forces inactive power astir of the metropolis of Kupiansk, though Russian forces support isolated groups successful the bluish parts.

An evacuation van drives done the mostly destroyed frontline metropolis of Kupiansk, Ukraine, connected Jan. 6, 2025. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Rustem Umerov, the caput of the National Security and Defense Council, was preparing for a gathering successful Brussels with nationalist information advisors to European leaders to little their colleagues connected the Witkoff-Kushner gathering with Putin.

"After Brussels, Rustem Umerov and Andrii Hnatov volition statesman preparations for a gathering with envoys of President Trump successful the United States," said Zelenskyy. "As always, Ukraine volition enactment constructively successful pursuit of a existent peace. I expect a caller study pursuing the results of today’s meetings successful Europe."