Putin Meets Witkoff and Kushner at the Kremlin: Seeks a Lasting Peace, Calls Foreign Troops in Ukraine Unacceptable
Russian President Vladimir Putin met U.S. presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin in Moscow on November 12 to discuss the just-concluded Russia-U.S.-Ukraine trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi. Opening the meeting, Putin said he hoped a settlement of the Ukraine issue would bring a lasting peace.
TASS reported that Putin also reiterated that any foreign forces on Ukrainian territory were "absolutely unacceptable," that Moscow viewed them as a threat to Russia's national security, and that such forces would be considered legitimate targets for the Russian armed forces. He added that if European troops entered Ukraine after a settlement, "the war would immediately resume."
The Russian side also included presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, special representative Kirill Dmitriev and presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who led the Russian delegation at the Abu Dhabi talks. Those talks ended on November 11 without a breakthrough, with the sides agreeing in principle to a large-scale prisoner exchange.
Under the itinerary announced earlier, Witkoff and Kushner were next to travel to Dublin, Ireland, to brief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
(Source: TASS)
Source: TASS
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