MOSCOW/WASHINGTON, Dec 04 (V7N) – The future of negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine remains uncertain, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, following what he described as “reasonably good” discussions between Russian President Vladimir Putin and two senior U.S. envoys in Moscow.

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and senior adviser Jared Kushner held several hours of talks at the Kremlin, concluding early Wednesday without a concrete breakthrough. Briefing Trump by phone afterward, they said Putin appeared interested in reaching a settlement. Still, Trump warned that progress would depend on both sides.

“The impression is that he would like to make a deal,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “What comes out of that meeting I can’t tell you because it does take two to tango. We have something pretty well worked out with Ukraine.”

A White House official said Witkoff and Kushner are scheduled to meet Ukrainian officials in Miami on Thursday as part of renewed diplomatic efforts.

The Kremlin, meanwhile, signaled cautious optimism. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected claims that Putin had dismissed U.S. proposals, saying the meeting marked the first direct exchange of views and that some points were accepted while others were “marked as unacceptable.” He called the process a normal stage in searching for compromise but stressed that no final agreements had been reached.

A senior Russian aide later confirmed that compromises have not yet been found.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his administration is preparing for further meetings in the United States, reaffirming that any settlement must respect Ukraine’s sovereignty. “Only by taking Ukraine’s interests into account is a dignified peace possible,” he said in his nightly address.

The intensified talks come at a challenging moment for Kyiv, which is facing renewed pressure on the eastern front and grappling with a major corruption scandal. Zelenskiy’s chief of staff resigned on Friday after investigators searched his home, two cabinet ministers have been dismissed, and a former business partner of the president has been named a suspect in the crackdown.

Peskov expressed gratitude to Trump for his diplomatic engagement but said Russia would not provide continuous public updates, warning that excessive publicity could hinder progress. Negotiations, he added, are currently focused at the expert level, where any initial results must be achieved before higher-level discussions can resume.

In recent weeks, leaked U.S. draft proposals—28 points in total—caused alarm among Ukrainian and European officials who said the documents appeared to concede key demands to Moscow. Europe responded with its own counter-proposal, prompting American and Ukrainian negotiators to refine a new unified peace framework during meetings in Geneva.

Putin has accused European countries of attempting to derail the talks by advancing terms Moscow views as unacceptable. His foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said Moscow had received the U.S. proposals in multiple parts, including four additional documents that were discussed during the Witkoff meeting. The substance of the proposals remains undisclosed.

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