US envoy Jared Kushner says Washington's focus is now on helping Russia and its European partners talk directly and on drawing up the agenda for another trilateral round of Ukraine negotiations, the Kyiv Independent reports. Writing on X on 14 November, he said several new ideas had come out of the latest discussions and were being explored, and that NATO would remain a key pillar of European security and of credible guarantees for Ukraine.
Kushner and fellow envoy Steve Witkoff met Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin separately after two days of US-brokered talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Abu Dhabi, which produced no wider ceasefire or peace deal. Zelensky said on 13 November that the Americans had for the first time raised the idea of Ukraine joining NATO in return for withdrawing from the parts of Donbas it still holds.
Source: Kyiv Independent