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Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner reach Kremlin after three-and-a-half-hour lunch with Putin envoy Dmitriev

From Ukrainska Pravda · () Ukrainian

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  • U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived at the Kremlin after a three-and-a-half-hour business lunch with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev.
  • Russian media later released video showing the start of a meeting between Vladimir Putin and the U.S. negotiators.
  • The envoys were expected to travel to Kyiv on Sunday, after the Kremlin announced a three-day halt to strikes on Kyiv and Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine was willing to halt airstrikes on cities involved in negotiations.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived at the Kremlin after spending three and a half hours at a business lunch with Kirill Dmitriev, a special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

RIA Novosti, a Russian news agency aligned with the Kremlin, reported that the motorcade carrying the two American negotiators entered the Kremlin grounds. Russian media later released video showing the beginning of a meeting between Putin and the U.S. envoys.

Witkoff and Kushner arrived in Moscow on September 5 and were expected to travel to Kyiv on Sunday. Earlier that afternoon, the Kremlin said Putin had ordered a three-day pause in strikes on Kyiv, beginning at midnight.

After speaking with Trump's special envoys, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv was willing to halt airstrikes on cities involved in the negotiating process.

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