US envoys Witkoff and Kushner visit Kyiv after Moscow talks with Putin

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U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for their first official visit to Ukraine, following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as part of a renewed push for peace more than four and a half years into Russia's full-scale invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his government is ready for a "constructive" discussion, emphasizing the need for security guarantees and a just, sustainable postwar peace. The envoys' visit follows a three-hour closed-door meeting in Moscow on Saturday that ended without major announcements, though Russian officials described the talks as constructive and also covered economic issues. The air war has intensified, with Russia and Ukraine trading strikes overnight into Sunday, killing one person in Russia and one in Ukraine while wounding at least 10 others. Putin and Zelenskyy had agreed to pause strikes on each other's capitals during the talks, though public sentiment in Kyiv remains divided on whether the visit will yield results.


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