President Putin Is Open to Renewing Trilateral Negotiations After Meeting With U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated that he was willing to resume U.S.-mediated peace negotiations on Ukraine in November following a meeting with White House envoy Steve Witkoff.

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“The president informed Witkoff that, in principle, we are prepared to resume trilateral negotiations around Nov. 10 on the most important issue: establishing a security system for Russia and Ukraine at the end of the conflict,” Yuri Ushakov, the Kremlin’s adviser on international policy, said during a telephone news conference.

Ushakov added that Witkoff commented that “this will undoubtedly be received with great satisfaction by U.S. President Donald Trump.”

Ushakov emphasized that Trump’s envoy briefed the Russian leader on the outcome of consultations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European representatives in Oslo.

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He noted that Putin listened to the “new positions and ideas” agreed upon by Kyiv and the Europeans in the Norwegian capital, “although, in the context of the process of resolving the conflict in Ukraine, there were not many useful things.”

Putin also took the opportunity to highlight the Russian army’s “strategic initiative” across all sectors of the front and the fact that Ukraine launched a massive attack on Moscow on the day of the legislative elections.

Other issues were also discussed, including the war in Iran, the agreement to supply Russian diesel to the U.S. and other bilateral economic projects, Ushakov said.

Today’s announcement marks a milestone, as trilateral negotiations have not been held since mid-February because of the start of the U.S. war on Iran.

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