European representatives may join the next round of negotiations aimed at ending the Russian-Ukrainian war. US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff made the statement following a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, CNN reports.
“They’re our partners, and it’s important for them to be involved,” he told reporters before departing from Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport.
He said progress had been made during the talks.
“I think progress was made. I think it was made earlier today,” Witkoff said. “People didn’t think that we were going to restart trilateral. We’ve restarted it. We’ve set a new meeting.”
US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner also took part in the talks with Putin.
“I think overall, (we’ve had) very fulsome and detailed discussions on all the topics, which I think will inform hopefully the next multilateral discussions,” he said.
The meeting followed two days of trilateral talks involving representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the United States in Abu Dhabi.
The US envoys are now expected to travel to Dublin, Ireland, where they will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and brief him on the outcome of the Moscow meeting.