Kushner: Tomorrow we will go to Moscow to meet Putin, then to Dublin to talk with Zelensky
Kushner says the trip follows two days of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi that produced a prisoner‑exchange agreement but no clear path out of the war.
Jared Kushner, the son‑in‑law of former U.S. president Donald Trump, said he and Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow tomorrow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and will then go to Dublin to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Follow‑up after Abu Dhabi trilateral talks
The announcement follows two‑day trilateral discussions in Abu Dhabi involving delegations from the United States, Russia and Ukraine that concluded without clear progress toward a settlement of the war.
“Steve and I will travel to Moscow tomorrow to meet with Russian President Putin to discuss what we debated today, in an effort to make additional progress on some issues, because we see certain opportunities for that,” Kushner said.
After Moscow, Kushner said the two U.S. intermediaries will travel to Dublin to meet with President Zelensky. The Abu Dhabi meetings were the first trilateral talks after a pause of more than eight months.
Publicly known from the Abu Dhabi meetings was agreement on a large prisoner exchange, but participants offered no clear signals that the talks pointed to an imminent end to the war. Territory remains one of the main obstacles: Putin seeks control of the entire Donbas, while Ukraine refuses to withdraw its forces from areas it still holds.
Photo: press material from the event
