Witkoff touts ‘substantive progress' after peace talks with Ukraine, Russia

Special envoy Steve Witkoff touted 'substantive progress' in the wake of U.S. talks on the Russia-Ukraine war with both sides. 'United States negotiators visited both Moscow and Kyiv in order to facilitate additional dialogue to end the Russia-Ukraine War. Ahead of the trip, the Russians and Ukrainians agreed to a three-day no-shoot policy to enable these discussions to occur,' Witkoff said in a statement obtained by NewsNation's Hannah Brandt. 'Special Envoy Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and officials from the National Security Council, State Department, and Treasury Department met with both President Putin of Russia and President Zelenskyy of Ukraine in order to discuss each side's proposals with the other,' he added. Witkoff added later in the statement that 'substantive progress was made, including movement on scheduling additional trilateral talks.' The war between Russia and Ukraine has been one of the main foreign policy problems dogging the U.S. in the last few years, and if the conflict continues past next February, it will cross the four-year mark. On Sunday, Witkoff said the U.S. was confident that trilateral talks will lead to a 'good resolution' to the war in Ukraine after he and Kushner met with officials in Kyiv. According to CNN, Sunday was the envoys' first time visiting Kyiv to negotiate an end to the war. Witkoff said in a press conference that their discussions were 'substantive' and that he had confidence 'that there'll be a good resolution here.' Witkoff and Kushner met with Putin in Moscow on Saturday.