Putin Agrees To Let European Representatives Join Ukraine Peace Talks

President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to let European representatives join the next round of Ukraine peace talks, a US envoy said, though the Russian leader said Washington must work with its European allies to understand if they want peace or war in Ukraine.The move to give Europe a seat at the negotiating table at the next round of talks, which US envoy Steve Witkoff told reporters after the talks, is a breakthrough.

But Putin's comments underlined how difficult the negotiations could become, given sharp differences between Moscow and European capitals."The Europeans will join at the next meeting, which we consider to be a very important moment because they are our partners and it's important to us that they take part," Witkoff told Russian state TV after meeting Putin in the Kremlin.But in a sign of renewed tensions, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky - who Witkoff and Kushner were expected to meet later in Dublin - said new restrictions were affecting the US-made satellite communications Kyiv uses on the battlefield, and that he found the US approach of discussing a…