Trump's son-in-law Kushner hopes for trilateral talks on Ukraine conflict
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US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner expressed hope that representatives of Russia, the United States, and Ukraine will discuss new ideas for settling the Ukraine conflict in a trilateral format, following his and Steve Witkoff's visits to Moscow and Kiev and a Trump-Putin phone call on September 8.
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Why It Matters
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visited Moscow on September 5, meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and then traveled to Kiev to meet with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. This followed a telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 8.
WASHINGTON, September 13. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner hopes that representatives of Russia, the United States, and Ukraine will discuss new ideas for settling the Ukraine conflict in a trilateral format.
"I think that that led to some new ideas that hopefully we'll be able to discuss at a trilateral soon. We're working to try to put that together, which I think was really one of the goals," he said via video link at a conference of the so-called Yalta European Strategy in Kiev, referring to the results of his and US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff's trips to Moscow and Kiev.
Kushner and Witkoff visited Moscow on September 5, where they were received by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The following day, they met with Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev. Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said that Putin and US President Donald Trump held a telephone conversation on September 8.
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Trilateral talks between Russia, the United States, and Ukraine will be held to discuss new ideas for settling the Ukraine conflict.
Possible · Within weeks
Open Questions
- What specific new ideas were discussed during the visits to Moscow and Kiev?
- When and where will the trilateral talks take place?
- What are the exact goals of the proposed trilateral format for settling the Ukraine conflict?
- How have Russia and Ukraine responded to the proposal for trilateral talks?
