US envoy Witkoff reports progress on scheduling trilateral talks after his visits to Russia and Ukraine

Olha Kovalchuk, Alona Mazurenko - 7 September, 18:34

Steve Witkoff. Photo: Getty Images

US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff has said following his visits to Moscow and Kyiv that "substantive progress" has been made, including on scheduling further trilateral talks.

Source: Witkoff on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda

Details: Witkoff recalled that he and Jared Kushner had visited Moscow and Kyiv to facilitate further dialogue aimed at ending the Russo-Ukrainian war.

According to Witkoff, the meetings with the Russian and Ukrainian sides resulted in "substantive progress" being made, including on scheduling trilateral talks.

"President Trump is working hard to stop the killing and work towards a lasting and durable peace," the US special envoy wrote.

Background:

On 6 September, US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kyiv by train and met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Sofiiska Square. The national security advisers to the leaders of France, the UK and Germany arrived in Kyiv at the same time. Before that, the US envoys had travelled to Moscow, where they held talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
On 6 September, Witkoff said that the task of the US delegation, which had visited Kyiv and Moscow over the previous two days, was to "bring the sides closer together".
Zelenskyy said that several new ideas concerning the next stage of negotiations had been put forward during the talks in Kyiv and the sides have agreed to hold another Ukraine-US-Europe meeting in the near future.

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