US and Ukraine officials to meet for third day after security framework progress

Jared Kushner and US special envoy Steve Witkoff before talks with Vladimir Putin at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow earlier in December (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US President Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials say they will meet for a third day of talks on Saturday after making progress on finding agreement on a security framework for post-war Ukraine.

The two sides also offered the sober assessment that any “real progress toward any agreement” will ultimately depend “on Russia’s readiness to show serious commitment to long-term peace”.