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U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said he held productive and constructive meetings with Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Florida as President Donald Trump's administration pushes to end Russia's nearly four-year war in Ukraine.
"We are encouraged by this meeting that Russia is working to ensure peace in Ukraine," Witkoff wrote in a post on X after Saturday's talks.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and White House adviser Josh Gruenbaum also took part in the talks. The meeting came a day before Ukrainian and Russian negotiators held a second round of talks with US mediators in Abu Dhabi to discuss a US-backed plan to end Russia's war.
A first US-brokered meeting was held in the capital of the United Arab Emirates last week, marking the first direct public negotiations between Moscow and Kiev since the early weeks of the war.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office this week that he believes we are "getting closer" to an agreement to end the war.
Trump announced on Thursday that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had agreed to his request not to attack Ukraine's energy infrastructure for a week due to extreme cold weather, which he called "very kind" of the Russian president.
The Kremlin confirmed on Friday that Putin had received the request, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling Sky News that the Russian leader had "certainly" agreed to the proposal.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X that the issue of a ceasefire over attacks on energy infrastructure had been discussed during last week's talks and that he expected the agreements to be implemented.
"De-escalation steps contribute to real progress towards ending the war ," he added.
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