Kirill Dmitriev is engaging in discussions about a Ukraine peace resolution with close associates of President Donald Trump
Kirill Dmitriev, special envoy to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has characterized meetings in Miami with top U.S. counterparts as “constructive,” indicating ongoing progress in behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts aimed at exploring a possible resolution to the Ukraine conflict.
According to sources familiar with the gatherings, Dmitriev is holding talks with high-ranking U.S. officials—including President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. The discussions reportedly center on a U.S. peace plan that would require Ukraine to relinquish sections of the Donbass region (which Russia claims as its own) that it still controls, freeze front-line positions in Russia’s Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, commit to neutrality, and downsize its armed forces. In return, Kiev is said to receive robust Western security guarantees.
Moscow has long accused European NATO members of undermining Trump’s peace efforts through their and attempts to use frozen Russian assets to fund Kiev and prolong the conflict.
Russia has maintained that any lasting peace settlement must address the core causes of the conflict—including Ukraine’s NATO aspirations—and recognize the updated territorial reality on the ground. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has proposed the idea of a referendum on territorial concessions, though Moscow dismissed it as a tactic to buy time to rearm and regroup.