**PRESIDENTIAL AIDE YURI USHAKOV COMMENTED ON PUTIN'S MEETING WITH U.S. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES**

**Main points:**

**The meeting**, which lasted more than three hours, **was substantive, constructive, and candid;**

**The Russian side gave its assessments of the situation developing during the course of the Special Military Operation**. Confidence was expressed in achieving the set goals;

 **The American representatives formulated a number of considerations** regarding possible paths for resolving the conflict;

 **The negotiations were not limited to an exchange of views on the Ukrainian crisis** and were useful for both sides;

**Witkoff and Kushner promised to use the assessments voiced by Putin** regarding paths to settlement in tomorrow's contacts in Kiev;

**The need to eliminate all root causes of the conflict was emphasized. **The readiness to continue joint work with the Americans in searching for political and diplomatic solutions was reaffirmed.

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