Ukraine war live: After meeting Putin in Moscow, Trump envoys head to Kyiv for first visit

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were due in Kyiv on Sunday, after spending three hours in Moscow with Vladimir Putin in the first stage of a mission Donald Trump says carries a proposal for Ukraine.

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a number of ideas about possible ways toward a settlement

The Kremlin said the American envoys had presented “a number of ideas about possible ways toward a settlement.” Yuri Ushakov, an adviser to Putin, said they had carefully prepared for the trip and had repeated their interest in ending hostilities quickly. Russia, he added, expressed confidence that its objectives would be achieved, without specifying what those objectives were.

A White House spokesman later told Agence France-Presse that Witkoff and Kushner had discussed “substantive plans for the next steps, which will be announced in the coming weeks.” Russian television showed Putin telling the two men in the Kremlin that “the situation is of course not simple.”

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substantive plans for the next steps, which will be announced in the coming weeks

The talks unfolded against a tense backdrop. Ukraine’s military authorities briefly issued a drone alert in Kyiv early Sunday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had ordered a three-day halt to strikes on Kyiv during the planned contacts. Volodymyr Zelenskyy had said Ukraine would not attack Russia during the negotiations and called on Moscow to ensure a reciprocal ceasefire for as long as the talks required.

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the situation is of course not simple

Zelenskyy said Russian strikes overnight Friday had hit both Kyiv airports in a “demonstrative” response to preparations for a possible American flight to Ukraine. He did not give the scale of the damage.

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demonstrative