{"id":675279,"date":"2026-09-06T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/675279\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:04:14","slug":"trump-envoys-arrive-in-kyiv-after-holding-substantive-talks-with-putin-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/675279\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoys arrive in Kyiv after holding ‘substantive’ talks with Putin in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US ENVOYS STEVE Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Kyiv for their first visit to Ukraine for talks on how to end the war with Russia, a day after meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow.<\/p>\n

Witkoff and Kushner arrived in Kyiv by train ahead of their talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n

The White House said the pair met with Putin on Saturday to \u201cadvance President Trump\u2019s agenda of peace in the Russia-Ukraine War,\u201d a White House official said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two sides discussed substantive plans for next steps, which will be announced in the coming weeks, and look forward to equally productive meetings tomorrow in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov called the talks \u201cextremely frank\u201d, saying the Americans \u201cput forward a number of ideas on possible routes to a settlement\u201d, but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n

The Russian side told the Americans that Moscow was \u201cconfident\u201d it could achieve its military goals of seizing the rest of eastern Ukraine, Ushakov added.<\/p>\n

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\n US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arriving in Kyiv. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n

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Both Russia and Ukraine have vowed not to strike each other\u2019s capitals for three days to allow for the negotiations to take place.<\/p>\n

It was Kushner and Witkoff\u2019s eighth visit to Moscow during the war.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian airspace has been closed since Moscow launched the war in February 2022 and visiting leaders have been arriving by train.\n<\/p>\n

Putin thanks Trump\u00a0<\/p>\n

In televised comments before the talks, Putin said Russia would ensure the safety of the envoys in Kyiv \u2013 a city Moscow has pounded with deadly strikes throughout the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will do everything that depends on us to ensure the safety of the negotiation process and mediators such as yourselves,\u201d Putin told Witkoff and Kushner.<\/p>\n

Earlier Saturday, Putin had thanked Trump for persisting in his efforts to end the war despite it being \u201cnot simple\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of the envoys\u2019 trip to Kyiv, he said: \u201cNo matter what happens next, contacts of this kind are undoubtedly always beneficial.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said on Friday his envoys were bringing a \u201cproposal\u201d to end fighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an idea for peace,\u201d he said, without elaborating.<\/p>\n

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\n Vladimir Putin listens during talks with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n

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US efforts have so far not led to a breakthrough in the war, and peace efforts have stalled in part because of Washington\u2019s war with Iran.<\/p>\n

Russia occupied large swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine, and Putin has insisted Moscow is intent on seizing the rest of eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Limited truce<\/p>\n

Both Moscow and Kyiv committed to suspending strikes as the negotiations took place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Russian president, the commander-in-chief, has given the order from midnight not to strike Kyiv for three days,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said he had spoken to the US envoys and also promised Kyiv would not strike Moscow.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom now through the end of Saturday, as well as on Sunday and Monday, Ukraine is ready to refrain from strikes on Moscow,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Putin said he had \u201cnoted that the Ukrainian side significantly reduced\u201d its strikes on Russia and Moscow.<\/p>\n

However, Kyiv said that Russian strikes had killed 10 people across the country Saturday \u2013 including a child and his family members in the Kharkiv region and two people outside Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy accused Moscow of trying to disrupt the visit of the US envoys with overnight attacks on Kyiv\u2019s two airports, as well as on civilian targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 1 hr ago US ENVOYS STEVE Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Kyiv for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,550,7,8,551,2262,2263,10387,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-675279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-donald-trump","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}