রাশিয়া-ইউক্রেন

xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoFrom right, Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev welcomes US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff upon their arrival in Moscow [AFP]By Al Jazeera Staff, AP and ReutersPublished On 12 Nov 202612 Nov 2026United States envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have ⁠arrived in ⁠Moscow for talks with Russian রাষ্ট্রপতি Vladimir Putin in their latest push for a peace deal ⁠in ইউক্রেন.। Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s special envoy, met Kushner and Witkoff at their plane on Thursday morning and accompanied them to central Moscow.। The meeting comes on the heels of two days of trilateral peace talks in the United Arab Emirates that concluded in the capital, Abu Dhabi, on Wednesday with news of another planned major prisoner exchange but no breakthrough on ending the nearly five-year war.।

The US said differences remained on major issues, including territory, but some progress had been made on post-war security guarantees.। Kyiv has strongly rejected Putin’s demands to surrender all of its eastern region of Donbas in ⁠return for peace.। The Abu Dhabi talks were the first direct negotiations between রাশিয়া and ইউক্রেন mediated by the US in nine months.।

Al Jazeera’s Yulia Shapovalova, reporting from Moscow, said one of the goals of Thursday’s visit would be for the US team to persuade Putin to invite Europeans to the negotiation process.। “ইউক্রেন and the US want the European partners to be involved while Moscow is adamant about talks without the Europeans, and that’s why they’ve been largely excluded from the process,” she said.। Shapovalova added that the US delegation would bring Putin an updated proposal for a peace plan and the presence of Dmitriev in the talks was an indication that they would address some of the more complex issues.।

During the US-backed effort to revive talks, leaders from more than 40 European countries gathered in Dublin on Thursday for a শীর্ষ সম্মেলন focused on the continent’s security.। The meeting of the European Political Community (EPC) brought together heads of state and সরকার from the European Union and other European countries, including the United Kingdom. Ukrainian রাষ্ট্রপতি Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Canadian প্রধানমন্ত্রী Mark Carney and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte also attended.। The EPC was established in 2022 as a forum for countries both inside and outside the 27-nation EU.।

Zelenskyy and his European allies are expected to discuss this week’s talks in Abu Dhabi.। Kushner, US রাষ্ট্রপতি Donald Trump’s son-in-law, and Witkoff are scheduled to meet Zelenskyy in Dublin on Friday after talking to Putin.। Audrey Macalpine, reporting from Kyiv, said Ukrainians do not believe the talks in Moscow will yield results. “Over the past two days, we saw just another prisoner exchange, which has been the case in previous talks,” the correspondent said.।

“When it comes to the negotiations, not much has changed in terms of where these two sides stand,” Macalpine added. “Perhaps the biggest thing of note [in the talks] was that they took place at all.”। Meanwhile, French Minister Delegate for European Affairs Benjamin Haddad on Thursday ‌said the ⁠EU will approve more sanctions ⁠against রাশিয়া.। “On Monday, we will take new sanctions against ⁠রাশিয়া on 150 additional ⁠entities, 50 banks, and it’s ⁠France which proposed the ⁠bulk ⁠of the entities to add,” Haddad ‌told LCI television.।