The meeting comes a day after the US’s Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
United States special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on ending Russia’s war against his country, marking their first visit to Kyiv since the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022.
The meeting on Sunday came a day after the two met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
“It is very important that the delegation has arrived to see us. We have been waiting a long time for Steve and Jared, Witkoff and Kushner,” Zelenskyy said, thanking US President Donald Trump for “allowing them to come” despite the war. “To us, it is very important to do everything so that this war ends,” he added.
“We’ve had a very meaningful discussion, substantive, important, and we are very encouraged and we look forward to continuing this as long as it takes,” Witkoff said after the talks.
On his part, Kushner said that Trump wanted “not just to figure out how we end the current war, but how do we create the right conditions and arrangements for a long-term, durable peace,” adding that the US team had “learned a lot from the trip.”
Al Jazeera’s Audrey MacAlpine, reporting from Kyiv, said little new information came out of the talks.
