US envoys proposed a “number of ideas” on how to end the Ukraine war in “frank” talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin late on Saturday, Moscow said, ahead of their first trip to Kyiv.US President Donald Trump’s business partner Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner met Putin for more than three hours, the Kremlin said, as Washington tries to revive negotiations to end Europe’s worst conflict since Word War II.Their visit to Moscow comes after the war – which has killed hundreds of thousands and forced millions to flee their homes – escalated this summer. It also follows a visit last month to Moscow by John Ratcliffe, the director of the CIA.Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov called the talks “extremely frank”, saying the Americans “put forward a number of ideas on possible routes to a settlement”, but did not elaborate.The Russian side told the Americans that Moscow was “confident” it could achieve its military goals of seizing the rest of eastern Ukraine, Ushakov added.It was Kushner and Witkoff’s eighth visit to Moscow during the war – but it will be their first in the Ukrainian capital, hit by deadly Russian strikes throughout the war.