By Anthony Marcus for Eurasia Business News, January 8, 2025. Article n°1982
Axios media reports Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian president’s special representative, met in Paris on January 7 with U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Steve Whitkoff, with Jared Kushner also present. The discussions would have been focused on a possible settlement in Ukraine, citing unnamed sources.
How this fits into the Paris talks
Separate reporting by our local sources on the same Paris track indicates that U.S. and Ukrainian representatives, including Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner, have been involved in intensive discussions with European partners on “the most difficult issues” of a potential Ukraine settlement, such as territory and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
These talks are described as part of a wider “coalition of the willing” process in Paris, where the U.S. and European states are working on ceasefire terms and long‑term security guarantees for Ukraine, even as Russia’s official negotiating stance remains unclear.
What can and cannot be confirmed here
The involvement of Whitkoff and Kushner in U.S.–Ukraine–European discussions in Paris, and the focus on a framework to end the war and provide security guarantees to Kyiv, is described in multiple open sources.
The specific trilateral meeting you cite—Dmitriev, Whitkoff, and Kushner together, and the exact characterization of their conversation as a dedicated Russia–U.S. backchannel on Ukraine—comes from Axios’ sourced reporting and cannot be independently checked here without direct access to that article; it should therefore be treated as a claim attributed to Axios rather than a fully confirmed official account.
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Moscow has revealed few details of its stance in the U.S.-led peace negotiations. Officials have reaffirmed Russia’s demands and have insisted there can be no ceasefire until a comprehensive settlement is agreed. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ruled out any deployment of troops from NATO countries on Ukrainian soil.
On January 6, a meeting of the leaders of the EU countries with the Ukrainian and American delegations was held in Paris. As a result, France, Great Britain and Ukraine signed a declaration on security guarantees for Kyiv after the end of the conflict.
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