00:01U.S. Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr
00:06Zelensky in Ireland on Thursday night following a visit to the Kremlin.
00:11The main piece of progress outlined by Zelensky and U.S. representatives was that European
00:16negotiators would be at the table for future talks.
00:19The American side, American group made progress on Europeans.
00:26And this is important that Europeans next time, next meeting, Europe will be during negotiation,
00:33will be a negotiation team in, not some way, not separately.
00:39They will have a voice.
00:40We cannot conclude this deal without the Europeans being at the table.
00:45We've been telling President Putin that we believe that's very important.
00:49And President Zelensky has been a very strong supporter and he's been saying that from the
00:53very, very beginning.
00:54And I think that we're able to achieve that with President Putin and he's willing to give
00:58it a try.
00:58Kushner and Witkoff held over four hours of talks with Putin in the Kremlin before jetting
01:03to debrief Zelensky in Dublin.
01:05The talks produced no major breakthrough aside from an agreement to swap a large number of
01:11prisoners with the exact figures still to be announced.
01:14Moscow has not confirmed whether it has agreed to include European negotiators in subsequent
01:19talks.
01:19Putin signaled that Russia would not back down on territorial demands to control parts
01:24of Ukraine and rejected the idea of foreign peacekeeping troops being deployed in the country,
01:29dampening hopes of a nearing deal to end the war.
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