Vitkoff and Kushner may visit Kiev and Moscow for talks with Zelensky and Putin after meetings in Abu Dhabi, - Axios.
According to an American source, the Trump administration hopes for significant progress in the negotiations and hopes to overcome the differences between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
For the past two weeks, Vitkoff and Kushner have spoken daily, sometimes multiple times, with Russian and Ukrainian officials. At the same time, American mediators have been persuading Putin to return to negotiations for weeks.
The White House hopes that the lifting of US sanctions on the sale of Russian diesel and other concessions to Moscow will make the Kremlin more willing to compromise.
However, as Axios points out, the parties' positions on key issues, mainly territorial, remain far from each other. The continued Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities and Putin's refusal to accept a cease-fire also cast doubt on the chances of a quick deal.
"There is a chance to make significant progress and try to overcome differences of opinion. It was not easy to bring the parties back to the negotiating table," said the American official.