Russia and the United States, in addition to the prisoner exchange, discussed other humanitarian issues, the results of which may be published in the near future, Steve Witkoff reported.
"The Russians have now agreed to the largest prisoner exchange in history. It will be completed soon, and we have discussed some other humanitarian issues which we will probably announce soon," he said.
"I believe progress has been made. I think it happened earlier today. No one thought we would resume the tripartite negotiations. But we renewed it. We scheduled a new meeting," he added.
According to the special envoy of the American president, European representatives will also join the next stage of the negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement.
"The Europeans will join the next meeting and we consider it a very important event. They are our partners and it is important for them to be involved," he said.
Jared Kushner said multilateral talks would take place next week. They will be affected by everything that the American negotiators discussed in the meeting with Putin.
"I think we discussed all the issues in detail. And I believe this will affect the multilateral negotiations next week, as well as the conversation we will have with Zelensky," he said.
At the same time, Dmitry Peskov is not really sure that the negotiations with the Europeans will succeed.
"Europeans still sometimes, apparently, gnaw like spiders in a jar if someone, on their initiative, establishes certain contacts with the Russian side. These people are simply almost ostracized," the Kremlin representative emphasized.
"Let's start with the fact that so far the Europeans have not been able to determine who can represent them in the whole process," he said.
"At the very least, the actions of the Europeans should stop being contradictory. Today, President Putin spoke more eloquently about these contradictions in European positions," added Peskov.