Russia would accept Ukraine’s accession to the European Union as part of a U.S.-brokered agreement to end the bloody and protracted war Vladimir Putin started nearly four years ago, U.S. officials said Monday following talks with Ukrainian representatives in Berlin.
The surprising revelation came as officials were briefing reporters after several days of negotiations between U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and a delegation from Kyiv that included Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his National Security and Defense Council head, Rustem Umerov.
