US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Kyiv to revive peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday. Mr. Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to halt strikes on their respective capitals during the talks, but fighting continued overnight into Sunday elsewhere in Ukraine. The US envoys' visit comes after six months of Washington's focus shifting away from ending the conflict due to other priorities, such as the Iran war. Russian attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions killed one person and injured at least 10 others overnight, with Ukraine's air force intercepting 82 out of 108 drones launched by Russia.
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In short:
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Kyiv, as part of a push to revive peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
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The visit follows the emissaries' meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday.
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Both Mr Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to halt strikes on their respective capitals during the talks.
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US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Kyiv as part of a push to revive peace talks in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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The visit by the emissaries follows a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday.
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Mr Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to pause strikes on each other's capitals while the talks took place.
Mr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Kyiv was ready for a "constructive" discussion with US representatives.
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"We are interested in bringing the end of the war closer.
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Peace is needed.
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Security guarantees are needed.
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A just and sustainable postwar peace is needed.
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Our proposals are prepared," he said in a post on Telegram.
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No breakthroughs in Moscow talks
Saturday's meeting in Moscow lasted more than 3 hours behind closed doors and ended without announcements of any breakthroughs.
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Mr Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov described them afterwards as constructive, frank and useful but did not discuss specific outcomes.
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While Moscow offered its "comprehensive assessment" of the battlefield situation in Ukraine, Mr Ushakov said the talks were not purely focused on the war in Ukraine.
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"Economic issues and potentially large, mutually beneficial joint projects for Russia and America were discussed in considerable detail," he said.
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Prior to these meetings, Washington's push to end the fighting had lost momentum, with the United States focused for the past six months on the Iran war.
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The last known visit to Moscow by Mr Witkoff and Mr Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, was in January when they also held talks with Mr Putin at the Kremlin.
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Russia and Ukraine continue to exchange fire
Mr Putin and Mr Zelenskyy had agreed to pause strikes on each other's capitals while the talks took place.
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Still, the two traded fire overnight into Sunday in other regions, officials said.
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Russian attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions killed one person and injured at least 10 others overnight into Sunday, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
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In Zaporizhzhia, drone strikes killed a 74-year-old man and wounded three people, while a drone damaged an apartment building, injuring seven people, in the Khmelnytskyi region.
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Ukraine's air force said on Sunday that it had intercepted 82 drones out of the 108 launched by Russia overnight, along with six missiles.
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In Russia, a man was killed and a woman seriously wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a vehicle, local authorities in the Belgorod border region said.
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The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that its air defences overnight shot down 258 Ukrainian drones over 14 Russian regions, occupied Crimea and the waters of the Black and Azov seas.
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The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified as troops have struggled to make progress along the 1,250-kilometre front line.
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Russia has recently been using fast-flying, jet-powered drones, and the recurring wail of air-raid sirens has become part of daily life in Kyiv.
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