Russian authorities confirmed this Wednesday that there is a preliminary agreement for US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to visit Moscow next week to discuss a peace plan to end the invasion of Ukraine.
MADRID, 26 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS).- Las Russian authorities They expressed this Wednesday that they consider it “premature” to talk about the possibility of reaching a peace agreement with Ukraine in the near future, as pressure increases from the President of the United States, Donald Trumpwho announced that representatives of his Government will meet simultaneously with the Russian delegations y Ukrainian.
Kremlin Spokesman Dimitri Peskovnoted that “it is early to offer conclusions about an imminent end” to the war in ukraine. “Wait, it’s too early to talk about something like that,” he said, according to information collected by the news agency. TASS.
Trump assured that he “hopes to meet soon” with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, although he confirmed that he will only do so “when the agreement to end this war is final or in its final phase.”
The Kremlin confirms that the US envoy will travel to Russia
On the other hand, Russian authorities confirmed this Wednesday that there is a preliminary agreement for the US Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, to visit Moscow next week in order to discuss a peace plan to end the invasion of Ukraine.
I spoke with the President of the European Commission Ursula @vonderleyen.
I thanked Ursula for her clear position and her messages of support for Ukraine during her address at the European Parliament today. We see eye to eye: as long as Russia continues to rebuff all peace… pic.twitter.com/MY4D38UbOr
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Volodymyr Zelensky (@ZelenskyyUa) November 26, 2025
Yuri Ushakov, advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, indicated that an agreement has already been reached for this visit to take place, as he stated in statements to Russian state television.
Likewise, he specified that Witkoff will be part of a delegation sent to Russia by the Administration of US President Donald Trump, and will travel to the Russian capital “accompanied.”
However, he warned that any leak of the content of the conversations with Witkoff would be an attempt to “undermine relations between Russia and the United States,” and criticized recent leaks of information about telephone calls by US authorities.
“These incidents are unacceptable when it comes to addressing serious issues. Taking into account what is being talked about, it is important,” he declared.
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday that Russian and Ukrainian representatives held a meeting in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. #XinhuaNews pic.twitter.com/F5rvgbducp
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) November 26, 2025
Meeting in Abu Dhabi
Ushakov also explained that the Secretary of the United States Army, Dan Driscoll, recently held a meeting with members of Russian Intelligence in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to discuss this matter, although the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Narishkin, did not attend.
“He also met with Ukrainian representatives, something that was surely agreed upon before,” he said. He also confirmed that contacts had also occurred between the Russian and Ukrainian sides, who discussed possible exchanges of prisoners of war.
Yesterday, Trump announced that his two envoys in the framework of the negotiation process to achieve peace in Ukraine will meet simultaneously with the Russian and Ukrainian sides, with the aim of pressuring both parties to accept the agreement proposed by Washington.
The magnate assured that he “hopes to meet soon” with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and with his Russian counterpart, although he reiterated that he will only do so “when the agreement to end this war is definitive or in its final phase.”
Trump added that his team “has made tremendous progress toward ending the war between Russia and Ukraine,” again insisting that the conflict “would never have started” if he had been at the helm of the White House.