Foreign affairs
Hubbard freed; technical peace talks proposedMove the peace meeting from premature to tentatively November
A prisoner has been released. The larger settlement still needs its own signature.
- Executive owner
- Donald J. Trump / Steve Witkoff / State Department
- Status
- Hubbard freed; technical peace talks proposed
- Due
- November talks proposed; settlement not agreed
- Paying for it
- U.S. diplomacy budgets; Ukraine bears the continuing war
ACTIVITY
UpdatedThe envoys visited Moscow and Kyiv.
I bring a PEN, they bring a DECISION.
The Kremlin said talks might restart.
Scheduling asked for a date and a room.
Get them IN THE ROOM!
The answer was that it is too early to discuss either.
Meeting to plan the MEETING, I could sell the Building before they pick a Door! Place, Day, SHOW UP, some of my best Work done that way..... nobody thinks of the Showing Up anymore.
The schedule has acquired a possible month. Staff have retained the word possible.
I make the call, a man gets to go home. That's a result you can actually see, no tiny footnote, and I am very glad for his family.
The release milestone has its own checkbox. The peace agreement checkbox remains untouched.
I am claiming the Call.
Steve gets very generous with the adjectives, very generous man, I send him for a Negotiation and he's halfway through writing a dedication. I like a Thank You, perfectly good phrase, doesn't require us to settle the entire dictionary while we're there.....
Praise, proposed meetings and an agreed settlement occupy separate fields.
I want the November people to bring decisions. They've had enough practice bringing folders, the folders are doing very goodly.
PUBLIC RECORD
After Witkoff and Kushner visited Moscow and Kyiv, the Kremlin said it would not rule out renewed Russia–Ukraine–U.S. negotiations but that discussing dates or locations was premature. Russia freed American Stephen Hubbard on October 21. Trump said the United States gave nothing in exchange; Hubbard's lawyer disputed the mercenary charges behind his conviction. Witkoff's description of Putin as a humanitarian drew bipartisan criticism. After Putin met Witkoff, the Kremlin said technical U.S.-Russia-Ukraine talks could begin on or after November 10, potentially in Abu Dhabi. Zelenskiy supported three-way negotiations. No peace settlement was announced.