Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of the U.S. president, said that new ideas on a settlement emerged during the latest meetings of American representatives on Ukraine.
He also indicated that participants in the Ukraine settlement express in private conversations a readiness to make concessions. In Kushner's view, NATO is an important part of regional security, so Europe should be directly included in contacts on the peace process.
On Thursday, Vladimir Putin spoke at the Kremlin with U.S. presidential envoys Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The American representatives then arrived in Dublin, where they met with Vladimir Zelensky and held consultations with national security advisers of Ukraine, Germany, Italy, the EU, France, Ireland and Poland.
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov previously stated that European countries are trying to join the discussion on Ukraine, but they need to decide what they want: war or peace. Ushakov noted that so far all their practical actions point precisely to a desire to continue the conflict.