U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said Monday that tangible results had been achieved in Washington's diplomatic efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Assessing the U.S. delegation's contacts with the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, Witkoff announced that progress had been made toward organizing new trilateral talks between Washington, Moscow and Kyiv.
Witkoff also said that U.S. President Donald Trump was making intensive efforts to stop deaths in the conflict and achieve lasting peace.
Talks with Putin and Zelenskyy
Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday. They traveled to Kyiv on Sunday and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The visit to Kyiv took place after Russia and Ukraine agreed to a three-day pause in attacks to allow the talks to be held. The visit by Witkoff and Kushner was their first to Ukraine since the war began in 2022.
National security advisers from the United Kingdom, Germany and France also attended the talks in Kyiv.
Goal of reestablishing the trilateral format
In remarks on Sunday, Witkoff said Washington was seeing progress toward a diplomatic resolution to the conflict in Ukraine and hoped to restart trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States.
Witkoff said significant progress had been made in Moscow and that they had heard new ideas, emphasizing that diplomatic contacts should continue.