U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff plan to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Nov. 12 to settle the size of a planned prisoner exchange with Ukraine.
After two days of U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi, Kushner said the Moscow meeting would determine how many prisoners would be included. He called the planned release “the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners,” but gave no number.
Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky and Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov confirmed the planned exchange, the Associated Press reported. Medinsky described the deal as an agreement in principle; no count was announced. The Associated Press said the Abu Dhabi discussions ended without a significant step toward ending the war.
Kushner said the team would address matters left open in Abu Dhabi and try to include European representatives in later discussions. Kushner said the envoys plan to travel to Dublin after Moscow to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Moscow visit follows an earlier in-principle exchange understanding reached after the Abu Dhabi talks.
