US envoys Kushner and Witkoff hold first Kyiv talks with Zelenskyy in renewed peace push
American peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visited Kyiv on Sunday to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in their first diplomatic visit to the Ukrainian capital. The meeting came after the envoys spent three hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow the previous day, as the Trump administration pursues efforts to end the four-and-a-half-year war. While Kremlin officials described the Moscow talks as productive, neither side announced a breakthrough.
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US peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff traveled to Kyiv on Sunday to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, marking their first visit to the Ukrainian capital since taking on their diplomatic roles. The trip followed talks in Moscow the day before, where the two envoys spent three hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin without securing what either side described as a breakthrough.
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov called the Moscow meeting "highly useful," while a White House official told Reuters that further steps would be announced in the coming weeks. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly promised to end the war quickly, said on Friday that Washington had a fresh proposal but did not provide details.
Zelenskyy, who has said a window of opportunity for peace exists before US political attention shifts to next year's presidential race, posted on social media ahead of the envoys' arrival that Ukraine wanted the war to end but required "security guarantees" and a "dignified post-war peace." National security advisers from Britain, France and Germany were also reportedly in Kyiv on Sunday, though it was unclear which meetings they attended.
Previous rounds of US-mediated talks have produced little concrete progress, and it remains uncertain whether this latest push will yield a different outcome. Both Moscow and Kyiv continue to state starkly different conditions for ending hostilities.
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