US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kyiv on Sunday, Sept. 6, marking their first visit to Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion. The US delegation arrived by train at Kyiv’s central railway station for direct negotiations with Ukraine’s leadership.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. A senior Ukrainian delegation met the envoys upon arrival, including Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Budanov, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Sergiy Kyslytsya, Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SZRU) Rustem Umerov, and “Servant of the People” parliamentary faction leader Davyd Arakhamia. “Welcome to Kyiv, representatives of the President of the United States Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner,” Umerov wrote in a statement. “We continue close coordination on further steps to end the war.”
Strategy session and preceding Kremlin talks The arrival of the US envoys follows a preparatory strategy meeting convened by Zelensky earlier Sunday with members of Ukraine’s negotiating delegation to finalize Kyiv’s diplomatic positions. The Kyiv talks follow a three-hour-and-10-minute meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the US delegation at the Kremlin on Saturday evening, Sept. 5. Following those discussions, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov claimed that Witkoff and Kushner agreed to factor Putin’s battlefield assessments into their dialogue in Kyiv.
