Putin agrees ‘in principle’ to resume talks with Washington and Kyiv to end war in Ukraine—but still isn’t ‘fully satisfied’ with proposals

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday to resume three-way negotiations next month with Washington and Kyiv aimed at ending the war in Ukraine , a Kremlin official said, potentially setting up the first such talks since February.

The Russian leader agreed “in principle” to resume the talks after Nov.

10, Putin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters following a meeting in St.

Petersburg between Putin and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff.

The talks will focus on “building a security system for Russia and Ukraine after the conflict ends,” Ushakov said.

Witkoff’s talks with Putin about Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine took place as U.S.

President Donald Trump pushed Kyiv to make a deal that stops the fighting.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has insisted that only a summit of leaders can break the impasse.

The two armies remain locked on the battlefield, and the countries pummel each other with daily long-range strikes.

Representatives of the three countries held three rounds of negotiations early this year, meeting twice in Abu Dhabi in January and February, followed by further talks in Geneva in February.

However, little progress was reported beyond exchanges of prisoners of war as Moscow and Kyiv stuck to their longstanding basic demands .

Latest proposals to end the war have little of value, Kremlin says The discussion in St.

Petersburg lasted about three hours, the Kremlin said, and came a day after Witkoff met with Zelenskyy and some European leaders in Norway’s capital, Oslo.

The proposals from the Oslo meeting “contained little of real value in the context of resolving the Ukrainian crisis,” Ushakov said.