Kushner and Witkoff meet Zelensky in Dublin as Europe joins next round

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Dublin hours after meeting Putin in Moscow, announcing that Europe would join the next round of negotiations.

U.S. presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Irish capital Dublin on Thursday evening, hours after their talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin, on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit.

Kushner told reporters that people “want this war to end,” stressing that an agreement cannot be reached without Europeans sitting at the table and that Washington had told Putin this was important.

The video shows Kushner speaking to reporters alongside Zelensky and Witkoff in Dublin.

Largest prisoner-of-war exchange

Zelensky, for his part, announced that the two sides would carry out “the largest prisoner-of-war exchange,” adding that Europe would be part of the negotiating team at the next meeting and would have a voice, and that Ukraine would become a member of the European Union in the future.

In the clip, Zelensky discusses Europe’s participation in the next round of negotiations.

The Kremlin had announced that Putin and the U.S. envoys had agreed to continue the trilateral track and support the largest prisoner exchange, while Kushner spoke of “stunning” plans for the postwar period in Ukraine.

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