Witkoff and Kushner likely brought substantive proposal to Moscow – experts to RT (VIDEO)

Ex-Austrian FM Karin Kneissl and former White House aide Steve Gill have expressed optimism regarding the talks There are grounds for cautious optimism following Saturday’s talks between US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and ex-White House aide Steve Gill have told RT.Trump’s son-in-law and the US special envoy likely presented concrete and well-developed ideas on ending the Ukraine conflict to the Russian leadership, Kneissl and Gill surmised.According to Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov, the talks, which lasted over three hours and included formal discussions as well as an informal exchange over lunch, were “substantive, constructive, extremely candid and trusting.” Aside from the Ukraine conflict, the two sides are understood to have discussed economic cooperation and potential “major, mutually beneficial Russian-American projects.”Witkoff and Kushner subsequently departed for Kiev, where they were slated to hold meetings with Vladimir Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials.Speaking to RT on Sunday, former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl said that “the...