FILE – Russian Presidential overseas coverage adviser Yuri Ushakov, left, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, middle, U.S. particular envoy Steve Witkoff, foreground proper, and Russian Direct Funding Fund CEO Particular Presidential Consultant for Funding and Financial Cooperation with Overseas Nations Kirill Dmitriev, behind Witkoff, arrive to attend talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 2, 2025.
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A Kremlin envoy says peace talks on a U.S.-proposed plan to finish the practically four-year warfare in Ukraine have been urgent on “constructively” in Florida.
The talks are a part of the Trump administration’s monthslong push for peace that additionally included conferences with Ukrainian and European officers in Berlin earlier this week.
“The discussions are continuing constructively. They started earlier and can proceed at this time, and also will proceed tomorrow,” Kirill Dmitriev advised reporters Saturday, in accordance with Russian state information company RIA Novosti.
Dmitriev met with U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Miami, the company reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Saturday that a lot will rely upon the U.S. posture after discussions with the Russians. This got here a day after Ukraine’s chief negotiator stated his delegation had accomplished separate conferences in america with American and European companions.
Trump has unleashed an in depth diplomatic push to finish the warfare, however his efforts have run into sharply conflicting calls for by Moscow and Kyiv. Russian President Vladimir Putin has not too long ago signaled he’s digging in on his maximalist calls for on Ukraine, as Moscow’s troops inch ahead on the battlefield regardless of enormous losses.
On Friday, Putin expressed confidence that the Kremlin would obtain its army targets if Kyiv did not comply with Russia’s circumstances in peace talks.
European Union leaders agreed on Friday to supply 90 billion euros ($106 billion) to Ukraine to fulfill its army and financial wants for the following two years, though they didn’t bridge variations with Belgium that may have allowed them to make use of frozen Russian belongings to lift the funds. As a substitute, they have been borrowed from capital markets.
