According to CoinMeta, as reported by Axios, U.S. special envoys Kushner and Whitkoff will travel to Moscow on Thursday to meet with Russian President Putin in order to push for Russia to propose a new European security agreement that includes Russia's security demands and clarifies the reciprocal measures Russia is willing to take to ease tensions in Europe. The two are then expected to go to Dublin to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky. U.S., Russian, and Ukrainian delegations held their first direct talks since February in Abu Dhabi this week, with U.S. mediators participating for the first time, and may reach an agreement on the largest prisoner exchange since the outbreak of the war; the exact number of prisoners to be exchanged will be determined further on Thursday. The United States hopes to advance both a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine and a new European-Russian security framework simultaneously, but the new security arrangements must be implemented after a ceasefire agreement is reached. Russia previously opposed European participation in the negotiations, and Putin's advisor Medinsky also publicly criticized European leaders. There is significant resistance in Europe to reaching a new security agreement with Russia; European Commission President von der Leyen stated that Europe will only discuss a new security framework after the Ukrainian war is over.