Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The White House said U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff would meet with Ukrainian national security chief Rustem Umerov in Miami on Thursday, amid mounting expectations for a deal to halt the war in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump said talks that Witkoff and Jared Kushner -- Trump's son-in-law -- held with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday were "very good," and that they believed Putin had a genuine desire for peace.

Speaking to reporters in the White House on Wednesday, Trump cautioned that it was too early to know what would come out of the meeting because "it does take two to tango."

However, he said he believed the United States and Ukraine were now on the same page.

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