Jared Kushner reports 'encouraging progress' after US envoy's emergency visits to Zelenskyy and Putin

Jared Kushner reported 'encouraging progress' following emergency visits by U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Zelenskyy in Oslo and Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. The main outcome of the meetings was the preliminary agreement by Moscow and Kyiv to hold direct trilateral talks involving the United States. The first meeting of working groups in the Russia-Ukraine-US format could take place in mid-November in Abu Dhabi (UAE).