Zelenskyy offers airstrike pause during US envoys' Moscow visit

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U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Saturday to revive stalled peace efforts, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered to pause airstrikes during their trip and urged Moscow to reciprocate, with no immediate public response from Russia. The visit came amid intensified drone and missile attacks from both sides, including Russian strikes that killed five workers at a Ukrainian industrial site and damaged a Kyiv residential building. Zelenskyy linked Russian attacks on airports to the envoys' planned travel, saying Ukraine would adjust operations but pose no threat to diplomacy. The peace push has lost momentum as U.S. attention shifted to its war with Iran, and the envoys' last Moscow visit was in January when they met President Vladimir Putin. They have never visited Kyiv, but Zelenskyy expected them there Sunday.


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