🎙 Comment by Aide to the President of Russia Yury Ushakov following a meeting between Vladimir Putin, US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner (November 12, 2026) 💬 Yury Ushakov: Good evening, friends. All of you are certainly aware that President of Russia Vladimir Putin received US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner today. The conversation was very substantive, constructive, frank and productive – just like all their previous conversations. At the outset of the meeting, the Russian President made several important statements in the presence of the press, setting the tone for the discussion that followed. Notably, the American negotiators actively supported the Russian President’s proposal to apply the approach used in the successful humanitarian operation in Aleshki to another city beyond the line of contact, namely, Konstantinovka. <...> 👉 We are ready to begin demining operations immediately. *** The President of Russia has once again supported the American side’s proposal to move towards resolving security issues for both Russia and Ukraine as part of efforts to shape a future post-conflict system of European security. <...> The President recalled our vision of the key pillars of the architecture of indivisible security, which we presented back in 2021 in the form of draft agreements with the United States and NATO on security guarantees. 📄 These include: • the non-expansion of the NATO bloc, • the non-deployment of threatening weapons systems near Russia’s borders, • a return to the configuration of the alliance’s forces as it stood at the time the Russia-NATO Founding Act was signed. To this list, which is not limited to the points I have outlined, we would like to add certain new considerations of our own, based on the lessons that we cannot – simply cannot – fail to draw from the present situation, in which the collective West has taken up arms against us, making no secret of its desire to save the Kiev regime and to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. For our part, the position of the Europeans has been comprehensively outlined. They are striving by every means possible to join the negotiations, but, as our President has said, they must decide whether they want peace or the continuation of the war. ☝️ So far, all their practical actions point precisely to the latter. *** In the course of today’s negotiations, the behaviour of the head of the Kiev regime was also discussed – namely, the “friendly greetings” he publicly extends to the President of the United States. It was also noted that in Kiev they do not want to end the war, because they would immediately have to call general elections, and no one wants to lose power. Our President did not overlook the fact that the current American administration is working very insistently and persistently to achieve a genuinely lasting settlement of the Ukrainian conflict. <...> Both we and the American side see great value in the upcoming trilateral summit in Shenzhen, which our Chinese hosts are organising. During the talks, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner gave a detailed account of their assessments of the trilateral contacts that took place in Abu Dhabi on November 10–11. Both we and the Americans regard those discussions and contacts as constructive and productive. It was agreed that this negotiation process and this track of talks will continue. In particular, support was expressed for an initiative discussed in Abu Dhabi to carry out another prisoner exchange, which would likely be the largest to date. The parameters of this exchange are currently being finalised. *** Following these in-depth discussions at the Kremlin, the American negotiators have departed for Dublin, where they are due to meet with Zelensky and representatives of various European capitals. We hope that the signals from Moscow will be conveyed to them with the utmost care. Read in full