Overview
- U.S. envoy Steve Witkof met Ukraine’s president in Oslo and is presenting a packaged peace framework to Russian officials in Saint Petersburg.
- U.S. officials say the framework includes long-term security guarantees for Ukraine plus plans for postwar economic reconstruction, details that remain partly unconfirmed publicly.
- Senator Marco Rubio described the Oslo meeting as positive and U.S. sources say Jared Kushner will join the Russia talks by video.
- U.S. diplomats frame the Moscow meetings as a step to convert U.S.–Kyiv–European understandings into a basis for direct trilateral talks and broader multilateral negotiations.
- The outcome now hinges on whether Moscow engages with the proposals, which will determine if these preparatory contacts can evolve into formal peace negotiations.