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US envoy Witkoff, Putin begin talks in Moscow on bid to end Ukraine war — Kremlin
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA meeting between US special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Vladimir Putin has started in Moscow, the Kremlin says, as the US pushes a plan to end the Ukraine war.
“A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Special Envoy Steven Witkoff has begun in the Kremlin,” the Kremlin says on its Telegram account.
Russian state news agencies have reported that US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is also in the meeting, as well as Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev and Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov.
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