Witkoff and Kushner want to use the Abu Dhabi talks to "consolidate" the decisions that Putin and Zelensky will have to make. Axios.
The White House is "cautiously optimistic" about the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi, Axios writes, citing US officials.
According to the publication, Donald Trump and his team hope that Putin will be more willing to compromise after the United States lifted sanctions on the sale of Russian diesel and took "other steps that were positively received by Moscow."
"The relationship we have built with Putin will play an important role in these negotiations," Axios quoted the source as saying.
The publication's source also says that Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, hope that the Russians will agree to include European representatives in the next round of negotiations - after Abu Dhabi.
The Axius source emphasized that Witkoff and Kushner want to use the negotiations to "consolidate" the decisions that Putin and Zelensky will have to make.
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