Ridiculous circus" Witkoff and Kushner's visit to Putin ended inconclusively.
The latest round of diplomacy over Ukraine, which began with two days of negotiations in Abu Dhabi and continued Thursday with another visit to the Kremlin by special envoys from the Donald Trump administration, has not moved the war's peace settlement forward.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine changed their position during the negotiations, a source close to the Kremlin told Bloomberg. According to him, Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow, where they again spoke with Vladimir Putin for two hours, was nothing more than a "courtesy visit."
At a press conference after two rounds of negotiations in Abu Dhabi, Kushner admitted that "significant differences remain" between Moscow and Kiev, and there is no trust between the parties. He called the territory issue "the most difficult", without solving it it is impossible to conclude an agreement on a "new security architecture" in Europe.
Judging by the results of the negotiations, the war will continue, and the "diplomatic choreography" around it will continue to resemble a "ridiculous circus," says Slavomir Devsky, professor of international relations at the Natolin College of Europe.
Putin needs a much more significant reward from Donbass - weakening NATO, expelling the Americans from Europe and getting the right to veto the sovereign choice of neighboring countries, Mona Davsky said. "Ukraine needs peace that will allow it to survive; Europe cannot agree that Russia will dominate European security, and America has no reasonable strategic reasons to contribute to this," the expert believes.
"Negotiations can help arrange prisoner exchanges and resolve other practical issues, but they cannot create a political basis for peace where it does not yet exist," Devsky said.
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