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Special envoy of the U.S. president Steve Vitkoff and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow 5 September. The purpose is to hold talks with the Russian side, although the Kremlin does not believe the mission will succeed. The next day the envoys are to travel, for the first time since the start of the full-scale war, directly from the Russian capital to Kyiv. The business jet carrying the negotiators landed in the Russian capital, aviation services reported.
Russian media report the arrival of the business jet in Moscow. The Russian aviation service confirmed to journalists the landing of the plane with the American delegation in the Russian capital.
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Vitkoff and Kushner had already come to Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin in early December 2025 of last year. However, after this visit to Moscow they will for the first time depart directly for Kyiv — previously the envoys’ trips were limited exclusively to the Russian capital.
Talks reached an impasse back in winter
The most recent round of trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S. took place 17–18 February 2026 in Geneva. The next meeting was planned for 5 March in Abu Dhabi, but after the start of the war between the U.S. and Israel with Iran it was postponed to an indefinite date.
In Moscow, according to Bloomberg, expectations for the current trip remain low: previous visits by the negotiators brought no progress, and Russia’s demands, sources tell the publication, are only becoming tougher. In Ukraine, the first visit by American envoys to Kyiv since the war began is being met with cautious optimism as a chance to revive diplomatic efforts after the winter stalemate in talks.
Earlier Informator reported that Vitkoff and Kushner are bringing to Kyiv and Moscow a proposal to end the war that U.S. president Donald Trump described, calling the main obstacle the personal hostility between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia. We also wrote that on the eve of the negotiators’ planned visit Russia struck two planes at Zhulyany, where the delegation was initially supposed to land, and Member of Parliament Oleksii Honcharenko called the strike a demonstrative signal from the Kremlin.
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