DUBLIN: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and US envoy Jared Kushner said on Thursday that Europe would join the next round of talks with Russia, as Vladimir Putin indicated that Moscow would not compromise on its hardline demands to end almost five years of war.

In a packed day of shuttle diplomacy following negotiations in Abu Dhabi, Kushner and fellow envoy Steve Witkoff held more than four hours of talks with Putin in the Kremlin before flying to Dublin to brief Zelensky.

Speaking to journalists on the tarmac of a military airbase in Ireland, the main progress highlighted by the Ukrainian leader and US President Donald Trump’s representative was that European negotiators would take part in future talks.