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US Envoys Witkoff and Kushner Eye Moscow Trip for Putin Meeting to Push for Ukraine Peace Agreement
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White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are seeking to travel to Moscow in the near future for talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as part of efforts by US President Donald Trump to advance a peace deal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on January 14.
The meeting could take place this month, though plans are not finalized and could be delayed by unrest in Iran, according to the sources. A White House official said no meeting is currently scheduled, and the Kremlin declined to comment, Bloomberg reported.
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Bloomberg wrote that it remains unclear whether Putin is willing to meet Witkoff and Kushner again, which has become a key obstacle to fixing a date. The two envoys met Putin in Moscow in December, with talks lasting nearly five hours but producing no breakthrough. Witkoff alone met Putin six times last year.
US and Ukrainian officials say significant progress has been made on a 20-point framework to end the fighting, with about 90% completed, though major disagreements remain.
Moscow continues to demand that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the parts of the Donetsk region still under Kyiv’s control and opposes the deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine. Kyiv has proposed freezing the current front line or a mutual pullback to create a buffer zone, Bloomberg wrote.
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Other unresolved issues include control of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the fate of roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian central bank assets.
US officials are expected to present updated proposals covering security guarantees for Ukraine and postwar reconstruction if talks with Moscow proceed.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow remains open to contacts with the envoys, calling previous meetings serious and focused on resolving differences, without confirming any upcoming talks, according to Bloomberg.
Previously, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his negotiating team had delivered a detailed briefing on talks with the US side and that he had instructed officials to finalize a document on US security guarantees for Ukraine for review at the highest level.
Zelenskyy stated that the two sides discussed a schedule for the next two weeks, including planned meetings, preparation of documents, and the possible signing of agreements. He said the security guarantees document should be “of a historic level,” adding that the text was now reaching that standard.
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