US envoys set for Ukraine talks after meeting Putin in Russia
It will be the first trip by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump's top negotiators, to Kyiv.
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Headlines diverge sharply, with some focusing on US diplomatic efforts with Russia while others highlight ongoing Ukrainian drone attacks or Russian troop losses.

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It will be the first trip by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump's top negotiators, to Kyiv.
U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff, right, and Jared Kushner wait to attend the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, on...
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are visiting Moscow and Kyiv over the weekend
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to arrive in Kyiv on Sunday in their first visit to the Ukrainian capital as part of a renewed push for peace in Rus...
U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to arrive in Kyiv as part of a renewed diplomatic push to hold talks over Russia’s war against Ukraine
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on Saturday, telling them that the situation in Ukraine is "difficult."
In televised remarks at the start of his talks with Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Putin said the US President 'does not stop in his efforts'
Ukraine has now downed more than half a million aerial drones since the full-scale invasion began, according to the General Staff.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner head to Kyiv for talks on Sunday after meeting Russian president in Moscow
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will travel to Kyiv today for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
As US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner head to Kyiv following what the White House described as "substantive" talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, FRANCE 24 correspondent Gull...
Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin aide, called US talks with Putin "extremely frank" and said that the US side had "put forward a number of ideas on possible routes to a settlement."
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with U.S. special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for three hours Saturday about the war with Ukraine.
President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a pause in strikes on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, ahead of the meeting with President Trump’s envoys: his son-in-law Jared Kushner and the businessman Steve...
A Russian aide said talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and two United States envoys were “highly useful” as the Americans attempt to restart stalled peace negotiations between R...
Vladimir Putin has suspended strikes on Kyiv for three days as he met White House envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff for "useful" Ukraine peace talks. Footage released by the Kremlin sh...
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to pause strikes on each other's capitals while U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner hold talks to revive peace efforts.
Both sides have been escalating aerial strikes deep into each other's territory
President Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin Saturday and discussed U.S. ideas for ending the war in Ukraine. Why it matte...
State of the Union: The visit signals a renewed U.S. push to end the war in Ukraine.
The talks on Saturday were aimed at reviving a stalled push to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
MOSCOW >> Russian President Vladimir Putin held more than three hours of “highly useful” talks today with two U.S. envoys seeking a deal to end the Ukraine war, a Kremlin aide said, but he...
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