US special envoys Kushner and Witkoff plan meetings with Putin in Moscow and Zelenskyy in Dublin

US special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow on Thursday for talks with Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin, before meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Dublin.

Kushner described the trilateral talks between Ukraine, the US and Russia in Abu Dhabi that had taken place as "very substantive", although "pretty tough".

Donald Trump's son-in-law said that he and Witkoff will travel to meet Putin on Thursday to "go over what was discussed today and try to make more progress on some of the issues that we discussed".

Kushner expressed hope that the meeting with Putin would make it possible to "finalise the humanitarian relief and the release of prisoners and other humanitarian issues that we're working on together".

He also said that in Moscow they plan to "see if we can get the Europeans added to the format so we can make this a multilateral format".

"After that we're going to fly to Dublin. We're going to be with President Zelenskyy to debrief with him and further explore some of the ideas that we came up with here today," he added.

During the first round of talks the previous day, the parties discussed security guarantees and Russia's demands, and touched on the issue of Ukraine's post-war future.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the trilateral talks on 10 November were "very productive", but that there is still "a lot of work to be done".

Zelenskyy described the trilateral format as "constructive and quite substantive".