U.S. and Ukrainian working groups composition announced

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff, businessman Jared Kushner and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine will work with Russia as part of the U.S. working group, U.S. President Donald Trump announced at a press conference following talks with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky.

"The working group is going to be composed of Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, General Caine, Marco Rubio and a few other people that we're going to be putting on to it. I think Pete Hegseth should be in that working group," Trump said.

For his part, Zelensky said the Ukrainian working group would involve National Security Council Secretary Rustem Umerov, Chief of the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces Andrey Gnatov and First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislitsa.

Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said that during the call Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with the U.S. proposal to continue seeking a settlement in Ukraine through two specially established working groups." One of the teams will address "security issues," while the other will focus on "economic matters."

"The schedule for launching these working groups will be finalized soon, likely in early January," Ushakov said