US and European officials increasingly expect Russia’s war against Ukraine to continue into 2027 after the latest push to restart peace talks with the Kremlin failed to deliver a breakthrough, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, Sept. 8, citing people familiar with the matter. US special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow before traveling to Kyiv, but the diplomatic effort failed to produce significant progress, according to the report.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Putin spent three hours with the US envoys at the Kremlin but showed no willingness to soften his position, European officials told Bloomberg. Instead, he is expected to intensify attacks on Ukraine as winter approaches. Russia is also preparing a new campaign against Ukraine’s energy and heating infrastructure over the next six months, one source told Bloomberg. The goal would be to make life increasingly difficult for civilians while Moscow steps up hybrid attacks across Europe to weaken Western support for Kyiv. Putin is betting that Russia will enter next spring in a stronger position, the source said, while seeking to keep the country’s increasingly strained economy afloat. “Serious negotiations” are unlikely before then, according to the source. Putin uses US envoys to project strength Another Bloomberg source said Putin used the high-profile visit by Witkoff and Kushner to project strength to a domestic audience ahead of Russia’s September State Duma elections.