U.S. envoys talk to Zelenskyy in Dublin, after prior sitdown with Putin in Moscow
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U.S. envoys met Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin before heading to Ireland for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Washington sought new momentum for its peace efforts.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, left, are shown speaking to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff on Thursday. (Vyacheslav Prokofiev/Sputnik/Reuters)
U.S. envoys met Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin before heading to Ireland for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Washington sought new momentum for its peace efforts.
Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who is also U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, brokered talks this week between delegations from Moscow and Kyiv. The session in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, brought the first direct discussions between Ukrainian and Russian representatives in nine months as the push for a settlement stalled.
The talks produced no major breakthrough, aside from an agreement to swap a large number of prisoners, with the exact figure still to be announced. Plans for another round of talks were announced as well, with Witkoff and Zelenskyy saying Europe will join, though they gave no details about which countries or how many.
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