
US special envoys arrived in Ukraine to discuss peace negotiations
US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the American leader's son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Vladimir Zelensky in Kyiv to discuss peace negotiations, having previously met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
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US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Ukraine after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the American leader's son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Vladimir Zelensky in Kyiv.
The meeting in Kyiv was attended by the head of Zelensky's office, Kirill Budanov, his deputy, Sergei Kislitsa, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service, Rustem Umerov, and the head of Zelensky's Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhamia.
The day before, a three-hour meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Witkoff and Kushner took place in the Kremlin.
US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and the American leader's son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Vladimir Zelensky in Kyiv, reports the Ukrainian agency UNIAN.
The Kyiv Independent previously reported that Witkoff and Kushner arrived in Ukraine to discuss peace negotiations.
“Zelensky has already met Witkoff and Kushner in Kyiv,” says a message published on the agency’s Telegram channel.
According to him, the US special envoys in Kyiv were met by the head of Zelensky's office, Kirill Budanov, his deputy, Sergei Kislitsa, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service, Rustem Umerov, and the head of Zelensky's Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada and a member of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, David Arakhamia.

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