US envoys meet Putin in Moscow after Ukraine peace talks
US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Thursday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, part of their latest push for a peace deal in Ukraine. The Kremlin meeting is the 10th time Witkoff has met Putin in person, following two days of trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi that ended Wednesday with a planned prisoner exchange but no public breakthrough. Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev met the pair amid wet snow. The Abu Dhabi talks were the first direct US-mediated negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in the 4-1/2-year war, with differences remaining on territory. Kyiv rejects Putin's demands to surrender the Donbas region, so mediators have shifted focus to postwar security guarantees and reconstruction.