Commentary by Assistant President of Russia Yu. V. Ushakov following the meeting of Vladimir Putin with the special envoy of the US President Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner (November 12, 2026).
Yu. V. Ushkov: Good evening, dear friends.
Everyone, of course, knows that today Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin received the special envoy for the US presidency Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the Kremlin.
The conversation and the exchange of views that took place were very significant, constructive, open and useful - like, indeed, all the previous conversations.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Russian president publicly made several important statements to the press that set the tone for the entire discussion that followed.
It should be noted that the American negotiators actively supported the proposal of the Russian president to extend the practice of the humanitarian operation that was successfully carried out in Alsheki to another city across the contact line, namely Konstantinovka.
We are ready to immediately start making mines.
The Russian president once again supported the idea of the American side to solve security problems for Russia and Ukraine in the field of creating a future European security system after a conflict.
In this regard, the President recalled our vision of the elements supporting an indivisible security architecture, which we presented back in 2021 in the form of draft agreements with the United States and NATO on security guarantees.
Main instructions:
Failure to expand NATO.
Failure to deploy weapons systems that threaten us near the borders of Russia.
Return to the configuration of the alliance forces as at the signing of the Russia-NATO founding law.