This is not what the Trump administration wanted to see after this week's Abu Dhabi trilateral talks, and as the team of Kushner-Witkoff, Trump's special envoys, are in Moscow where they met with President Vladimir Putin.
Putin's aide and representative to the talks, Yuri Ushakov, batted down Western efforts to get the Europeans at the table. He said that the Europeans need to decide between "peace" or "war" - in reference to Europe's drive to keep up maximum military support to Kyiv even as the US shows signs of backing off the intensity of assistance.
EuroNews writes, "Moscow has long equated Europe to a warring party due to the provision of weapons and ammunition that allies have sent to Kyiv."
"So far, all their practical actions point precisely to the latter," Ushakov said.
via ReutersEuroNews also concluded, "After Steve Witkoff raised hopes that Europeans and Russians would soon sit at the same time, Moscow minimized the prospect and said Europe should cease military support for Ukraine."
Witkoff and Kushner while in Moscow reporteldy sought Putin's consent for Europeans to join what would be a multilateral format.
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