Trump: Both sides want to end the war in Ukraine for the first time

Russia and Ukraine, for the first time, I think, want to reach an agreement. We have meetings. I had phone calls today. I'll talk tomorrow, Donald Trump told reporters after landing in Palm Beach, where he went for the weekend.

I think this will be a very big deal. I think it will cover all of Europe. It will be very big, he said.

He added that great progress was made in this regard on Friday.

Kushner on "fruitful and substantive" talks

On Thursday, presidential envoy Jared Kushner announced that the US held "fruitful and substantive" talks in Brussels on Thursday with Ukraine, NATO and European partners on security guarantees for Kiev and the broader European security architecture.

Kushner added that the U.S. goal is to "address the security concerns of all parties through practical, mutually agreed solutions that reduce the risk of another conflict."

Member of the Ukrainian negotiating team about the new US approach

On Friday, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating team, Dawyd Arachamija, said that the new approach of American negotiators is to move away from focusing on the "unresolvable" issue of Donbas and to look at the broader post-war security architecture in Europe in order to encourage Russians to make concessions.

During a press conference in Washington, Arachamija thus described the plan of Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, which is to be discussed during trilateral negotiations in Abu Dhabi next Tuesday.

Arakhamiya said that the goal of Washington's new strategy is to persuade Moscow to be "more productive" and make concessions "in the name of the bigger picture."

The idea is to take a bird's eye view of the broader post-war European security architecture. This is the approach. We don't know if it will work, but there is definitely interest in talking about it, he said.

He noted that post-war architecture "cannot be implemented without Europe," which means it will play an important role in the talks. He did not specify what this would mean in practice.