the Iran war<\/a>. The last known visit to Moscow by Witkoff and Kushner, President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, was in January when they also held talks with Putin at the Kremlin.<\/p>\nNo breakthroughs in Moscow talks<\/p>\n
Saturday’s meeting in Moscow lasted more than three hours behind closed doors and ended without announcements of any breakthroughs. Putin\u2019s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, described them afterward as constructive, frank, and useful but didn\u2019t discuss specific outcomes.<\/p>\n
While Moscow offered its \u201ccomprehensive assessment\u201d of the battlefield situation in Ukraine, Ushakov said, the talks were not purely focused on the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u201cEconomic issues and potentially large, mutually beneficial joint projects for Russia and America were discussed in considerable detail,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Russia and Ukraine continue to exchange fire<\/p>\n
The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified as troops have struggled to make progress along the 1,250-kilometer (775-mile) front line. Russia has recently been using fast-flying, jet-powered drones, and the recurring wail of air-raid sirens has become part of daily life in Kyiv.<\/p>\n
Putin and Zelenskyy had agreed to pause strikes on each other\u2019s capitals while the talks take place. Still, the two traded fire overnight into Sunday, officials said.<\/p>\n
Russian attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions killed one person and injured at least 10 others overnight into Sunday, Ukraine\u2019s State Emergency Service said.<\/p>\n
In Zaporizhzhia, drone strikes killed a 74-year-old man and wounded three people, while a drone damaged an apartment building, injuring seven people, in the Khmelnytskyi region.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s air force said Sunday that it intercepted 82 drones out of the 108 launched by Russia overnight, along with six missiles.<\/p>\n
In Russia, a man was killed and a woman seriously wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a vehicle, local authorities in the Belgorod border region said.<\/p>\n
The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that its air defenses overnight shot down 258 Ukrainian drones over 14 Russian regions, occupied Crimea and the waters of the Black and Azov seas.<\/p>\n
Mixed hopes on the ground<\/p>\n
In Kyiv on Sunday, dozens gathered for a nationwide 9 a.m. moment of silence honoring Ukraine\u2019s fallen soldiers, a daily ritual held in cities across the country.<\/p>\n
Among them was Nataliia Lipei, 67, whose son Viktor was killed in December 2022. Despite a health condition, she has traveled from city to city to take part, and she said she hopes the talks in Moscow and Kyiv will finally bring an end to the war.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope these steps and these meetings will definitely produce results, because there has been so much bloodshed and so many deaths here that we have to stop all of this,\u201d she told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n
Not everyone shared her hope for the talks. Oleksandr Pastukhov, 27, a video editor who joined the commemoration, was skeptical the envoys\u2019 visit would change anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve already seen delegations like this come here before,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen this so-called ceasefire for three days, which ended after just a couple of hours, and now we\u2019re supposed to naively think that two people will come and change something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Associated Press journalists Volodymyr Yurchuk and Yevhenii Ocheretianyi in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Elise Morton in London contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US envoys Witkoff and Kushner set for talks in Kyiv after meeting with Putin in Moscow KYIV, Ukraine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[442,115,13177,185,158,7295,1038,38,2481,2529,5901,414,25,113,6342,26,1836,314,183],"class_list":["post-38101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-diplomacy","tag-drone","tag-envoys","tag-kushner","tag-kyiv","tag-ldnd","tag-meeting","tag-moscow","tag-part","tag-peace","tag-push","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-sunday","tag-talk","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-talks","tag-war","tag-witkoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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