Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev, international coverage aide Yuri Ushakov, U.S. President Donald Trump’s particular envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner attend a gathering with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 2, 2025.
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A gathering with Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to happen on Thursday with “land offers” over Ukraine on the desk, Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff advised CNBC.
“[There’s been] a lot of progress within the final six to eight weeks,” Witkoff mentioned, noting that he and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner could be assembly Ukrainian officers Wednesday night earlier than assembly prime Russian officers.
“After which we’ll be seeing the Russians, Jared and I, someday on Thursday night,” Witkoff advised CNBC’s Sara Eisen on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland.
He mentioned Putin could be current on the assembly and that the Kremlin had requested the talks, with discussions over a U.S.-led 20-point peace plan making progress.
“We’re bringing everybody nearer …hopefully we’ll have one thing good to announce quickly,” he mentioned.
“[It’s based on] our 20-point peace plan, and we’re massaging it and harmonizing it, and I feel we’re right down to land offers now — that is been the 800 lb elephant within the room — and I feel we’ve some very, superb concepts round that, and hopefully we’ll be capable to make some progress there,” he mentioned.
Requested if he believed Putin would come to a deal to finish the virtually four-year warfare in Ukraine, Witkoff mentioned: “I do.”
A number of makes an attempt to get Russia and Ukraine to agree on a ceasefire have failed, however strain from the U.S. and Trump’s impatience with the continued battle — which has seen tons of of hundreds of soldier and civilian deaths — has helped to deliver each side to the negotiating desk.
Entrenched obstacles to a peace deal have been Russia’s calls for that Ukraine hand over its japanese Donbas area, and Ukraine’s calls for for safety ensures from Western companions to discourage Russia from invading Ukraine once more sooner or later.
