Kremlin comments on Witkoff and Kushner’s talks in Kyiv and Moscow
US President's Special Representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Kyiv on September 6, 2026 (Photo: President's Office)
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov avoided directly answering whether talks by U.S. presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow and Kyiv had brought peace in Ukraine closer on Sept. 7.
Responding to a question on the matter Monday, Sept. 7, the Kremlin spokesperson said that "any attempts, whether more or less effective, are one small step toward peace," according to Russia's state-run Interfax news agency.
Peskov also did not rule out resuming trilateral talks involving Ukraine, the United States and Russia, but said it was too early to discuss a possible location or timing.
On Sept. 5, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow, where they met with Vladimir Putin.
On Sept. 6, U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoys traveled to Ukraine for the first time to take part in talks on ending the war. They met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and representatives of the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
At a news conference in Kyiv, Witkoff said Trump had asked him and Kushner to resume talks on peace in Ukraine because it was "very important to him."
Following the meetings, the parties agreed to continue discussions on possible diplomatic steps to end the war and achieve a just peace.
Meanwhile, analysts at the Institute for the Study of War, or ISW, concluded that after Witkoff and Kushner's visits to Moscow and Kyiv, it had become clear that Putin was unwilling to make any meaningful compromises in negotiations to end Russia's war against Ukraine and that his actual demands extended far beyond the entire Donetsk region.
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