Posted on 09/05/2026 8:52:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
US President Donald Trump's top negotiators have met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as efforts to end the war in Ukraine gather pace.
Footage released by the Kremlin showed Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner being greeted by Putin, who said the current situation "is not so easy".
Witkoff thanked Putin for agreeing with Ukraine to halt strikes on each other's capitals for three days. On Sunday the envoys will travel to Kyiv for more talks - their first such visit to Ukraine's capital.
On Friday, Trump said Witkoff and Kushner were "bringing with them a proposal to end the war". So far, efforts by the US and its allies to broker a peace deal have failed.
At Saturday's talks in the Kremlin, Putin also said that "whatever happens, such contacts are undoubtedly always useful". He also thanked Trump for his peacemaking efforts.
He told the envoys that he was "comfortable" working with them, adding: "Of course on our side there is quite a high level of trust during this work."
The talks – held behind closed doors in Putin's official residence in the heart of the Russian capital – lasted for three hours, according to Russian state media.
Details are still emerging, but Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov described the talks as "constructive, extremely frank".
"The talks were not limited to an exchange of views on resolving the Ukrainian crisis - economic issues and potential major, mutually beneficial Russian-American projects were discussed in considerable detail," he said.
Ushakov also said "note was made of the Russian army's tangible advances in the combat zone" and that there was acknowledgement that talks needed to address "the root causes of the conflict".
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The SIL and Witkoff did such a great job with the Insanians he sent them to try their hand with Pootin?
Did Putin thank them for the oil price windfall Trump has given them?
I hope old Pooty Poot didn’t tell them Ukraine has uranium dust or anything like that. If he did Trump will be bombing them next. He has this thing about uranium dust you know?
Trump shoots up tankers instead of getting serious and disabling Kharg Island and their refineries. Can’t do that or his “good friend” Ping might get really pissed off and do someting rash.
The public session where Witkoff is kissing Putin’s butt is disgusting. The Russian version of the “proposal” published in Russian media is basically Ukrainian capitulation with a UN fig leaf: Ukraine withdraws from strategic positions in Donbas and Zaporizhia to create a buffer with UN troops but must acknowledge Russian sovereignty over Russian occupied areas and must change its constitution to official neutrality and make no military alliance with any foreign power. This would leave Ukraine naked and Russia would just attack again in a couple of years.
This is the same “magnanimous” deal offered over a year ago. It is the same as telling Ukraine they can have peace if they will only castrate themselves with a dull knife.
When it comes to making “deals” Trump is Pavlovian, he just can’t walk away and forget it when there is no deal to be made.
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