Source : BRICS NEWS
MOSCOW, October 22, 2026 – Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has informed the United States that it is ready to resume three-way talks with Washington and Kyiv on ending the war in Ukraine, BRICS News reported.
BRICS News reported the remarks in a post on X, saying Putin had stated that Russia “has told the US it is ready to resume three-way talks” on the Ukraine war.
Putin made the comments in an interview with Vesti journalist Pavel Zarubin on October 22, according to TASS and Reuters. He said the talks should focus on long-term security arrangements rather than a pause in the fighting. “The goal of these talks will be to ensure the security of Ukraine and Russia after reaching peace agreements, in their final form, not as a result of a temporary ceasefire for some short period of time. We are ready to resume these contacts to achieve this goal,” he said.
The Russian leader also said he agreed with US special envoy Steve Witkoff that the discussions should address “the architecture of European security as a whole”, rather than being limited to Ukraine alone.
Putin’s remarks came a day after he met Witkoff in St Petersburg on October 21. Witkoff had held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Oslo a day earlier, as Washington steps up efforts to broker an end to the conflict.
Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov has said that new talks involving Russia, the United States and Ukraine could take place in November in Abu Dhabi. Zelensky, speaking in Kyiv on October 22, said a meeting of technical negotiating teams could be held in the United Arab Emirates in early November.
US-mediated trilateral talks between Russia and Ukraine stalled in February, when the outbreak of the war between the United States, Israel and Iran shifted Washington’s attention to the Middle East. The renewed contacts are the most significant sign in months that the negotiating track could be revived.
The diplomatic push comes ahead of the G20 summit in Miami on December 14–15, to which US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said Putin has been invited. The Kremlin has said Russia is grateful for the invitation and will decide later on whether Putin will attend. Zelensky has said Ukraine would be represented at the highest level if invited, but that Kyiv has so far received no such signal. The Atlantic has reported that US President Donald Trump is seeking a peace agreement by December.
Putin’s insistence on a final settlement rather than a temporary ceasefire reflects Moscow’s long-held position that any halt in fighting must be part of a broader agreement addressing its security concerns. Kyiv and its European partners have, by contrast, pushed for a ceasefire as a first step towards negotiations, arguing that a pause in hostilities is needed to build trust between the two sides.
Neither Washington nor Kyiv had publicly responded to Putin’s latest comments on the format of the talks at the time of writing, although Zelensky has said Ukraine is open to talks wherever they are held.
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