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KYIV, Ukraine: U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to arrive in Kyiv on Sunday in their first visit to the Ukrainian capital as part of a renewed push for peace in Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The visit by the emissaries follows a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday. The visits by Witkoff and Kushner, who is also U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, are an attempt to revive peace talks during escalating aerial attacks by both sides.<\/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 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to pause strikes on each other\u2019s capitals while the talks take place.<\/p>\n
Washington\u2019s push to end the fighting has lost momentum as U.S. attention focused for the past six months on the Iran war. The last known visit to Moscow by Witkoff and Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, was in January when they also held talks with Putin at the Kremlin.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s 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 talk about specific outcomes.<\/p>\n
Moscow offered its \u201ccomprehensive assessment\u201d of the battlefield situation in Ukraine, but also that the conversation was not purely focused on Russia\u2019s invasion, Ushakov said.<\/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<\/div>\n