The Kremlin said Tuesday that no agreement has been reached with the United States on the critical issue of territory in Ukraine, following hours-long talks between U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff, Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Moscow meeting, which lasted about five hours, capped days of rapid-fire diplomacy stretching from Florida to Geneva to Abu Dhabi. Washington is pushing a peace plan that European officials and Kyiv initially viewed as too favorable to Moscow.
“So far, we haven’t found a compromise, but some American solutions can be discussed,” top Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters when asked about Ukraine’s occupied territories.
He said several U.S. proposals “do not fit us,” adding that negotiations would continue. Ushakov said the original American plan was divided into four components, all of which were discussed in detail during the session at the Kremlin.
“There were some points we could agree on,” he said, while noting that Putin made clear Russia’s “critical, even negative” position on a number of other elements.
Still, Ushakov described the meeting as “very useful and constructive,” even as he stressed that “a lot of work lies ahead both in Washington and Moscow” before any breakthrough is possible.
Asked whether the two sides were now farther apart than before the session, Ushakov said, “Not farther apart, that’s for sure.”
He added that both sides agreed not to disclose the substance of the proposals under discussion, keeping the specifics of the negotiations confidential.

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