Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev, foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov, U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner attend a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 2, 2025.
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A meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to take place on Thursday with "land deals" over Ukraine on the table, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff told CNBC.
"[There's been] lots of progress in the last six to eight weeks," Witkoff said, noting that he and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner would be meeting Ukrainian officials Wednesday evening before meeting top Russian officials.
"And then we'll be seeing the Russians, Jared and I, sometime on Thursday evening," Witkoff told CNBC's Sara Eisen at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
He said Putin would be present at the meeting and that the Kremlin had requested the talks, with discussions over a U.S.-led 20-point peace plan making progress.
"We're bringing everyone closer ...hopefully we'll have something good to announce soon," he said.
"[It's based on] our 20-point peace plan, and we're massaging it and harmonizing it, and I think we're down to land deals now — that's been the 800 lb elephant in the room — and I think we have some very, very good ideas around that, and hopefully we'll be able to make some progress there," he said.
Asked if he believed Putin would come to a deal to end the almost four-year war in Ukraine, Witkoff said: "I do."
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