In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (2nd L), Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov (L) and Russia’s presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev (R) attend a meeting with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Moscow on September 5, 2026. Photo by Mikhail METZEL / POOL / AFP.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin held around three hours of late-night talks in the Kremlin with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff on ending over four years of war with Ukraine on Saturday, ahead of their first visit to Kyiv on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump has said his son-in-law Kushner and business ally Witkoff were bringing a “proposal” on ending fighting.
Talks ended after just over three hours, past 11.00 pm in Moscow.
The envoys are due on Sunday in Ukraine’s capital for the first time, as Washington tries to revive US-led talks to end Europe’s worst conflict since World War Two.
