Rubio confirms Witkoff and Kushner's participation in talks on Ukraine in Geneva

US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and the son-in-law of the head of the White House, Jared Kushner, will take part in the talks on Ukraine, which will be held in Geneva. This was announced on February 14 by the American Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

"Our negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, devoted a huge amount of time to this, and on Tuesday (February 17. They will have meetings again," he said in an interview with Bloomberg television on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that the cessation of violations of the rights of Russian speakers and the UOC is also one of the key conditions for a settlement.

The Reuters news agency learned the day before that Witkoff and Kushner could join the negotiations on Ukraine. The next day, the US Secretary of State announced that military officials from the Russian and Ukrainian sides were able to meet "for the first time in many years", and also added that the list of remaining controversial issues in Ukraine was narrowing. The remaining topics for discussion, as Rubio emphasized, remain complex and require further work.

A new round of negotiations between Russia, the United States and Ukraine on the settlement of the conflict will be held on February 17-18 in Geneva. Switzerland has officially confirmed its readiness to host the trilateral meeting. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Russian delegation will be led by Vladimir Medinsky, assistant to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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