Putin Meets Witkoff and Kushner in Moscow Today After the Abu Dhabi Ukraine Talks, With a Meeting With Zelenskyy to Follow

The Kremlin announced in the early hours of Thursday, 12 November 2026 (21 Aban 1405) that Vladimir Putin will meet Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, special envoys of the US president, in Moscow today. Yuri Ushakov, Putin's aide, said the meeting will take place "in the first half of the day". According to Fars, citing Sputnik, it comes a day after Russia-Ukraine talks mediated by the US ended in Abu Dhabi; Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the envoys are going to Moscow to brief Putin on the Abu Dhabi results.

Ecoiran, citing TASS, reported that Kushner had said earlier that he and Witkoff would discuss with the Russian leader the issues raised in the trilateral Abu Dhabi talks. They are then due to travel to Dublin to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the 10 November talks in Abu Dhabi "very constructive", while saying much work remains. According to the Ukrainian president, the first outcome of the meetings was a humanitarian agreement on a new round of prisoner exchanges.