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Special envoys of the U.S. president, Steve Vitkoff and Jared Kushner, arrived in Ukraine today for the first time.
Vitkoff and Kushner in Ukraine: what is known This is the first visit to Ukraine for Vitkoff and Kushner. In Kyiv they were met by representatives of the Ukrainian negotiating team — Kyrylo Budanov, Davyd Arakhamia, and Rustem Umerov. Previously another Trump representative, Keith Kellogg, visited Kyiv and handled issues related to Ukraine. During Kellogg’s visits, enemy strikes on Kyiv stopped, and Ukrainians joked that his presence effectively "worked like air defense." However, during Kellogg’s August visit to Ukraine this did not work and enemy strikes still occurred. Kellogg himself suggested that one reason might be his current status, since after leaving government he became a private individual. On the eve of the U.S. envoys’ visit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky convened a meeting with the Ukrainian negotiators. According to him, the Ukrainian side is ready for the meeting and has prepared its own proposals for establishing peace. Vitkoff and Kushner in Moscow: what is known Yesterday, 5 September, Trump’s envoys were in Moscow, where they held a three-hour meeting with Putin. Assistant to the Russian dictator Yuri Ushakov said the meeting was "substantive, constructive, maximally frank and trusting." He also said that Trump’s representatives "promised to use, during contacts in Kyiv, the observations and assessments received from the president of Russia regarding reaching a durable peaceful resolution of the conflict." At the same time, Reuters, citing a White House official, writes that the talks were "substantive" and further steps will be announced in the coming weeks. Vitkoff and Kushner did not comment on the visit. According to media reports, the U.S. delegation in the Moscow talks included representatives of the National Security Council, the State Department, and the Treasury Department. Media report that after the talks Vitkoff and Kushner’s plane departed Moscow at 00:29 and landed at Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship of Poland at 02:31. Context This week Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the visit of the American negotiators to Kyiv on Sunday, and prior to that — to Moscow. On Friday Zelensky also said that Ukraine would not strike Moscow during the U.S. envoys’ visit and is awaiting a corresponding decision from the Russian Federation regarding Ukraine. Ukraine had also proposed a ceasefire on the front, but the aggressor did not respond to that initiative. Later the Kremlin said that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin ordered that no strikes be carried out on Kyiv for three days (from midnight, 6 September, for three days, until 9 September). The U.S. president, commenting on Vitkoff and Kushner’s trip to Ukraine and Russia, said they were bringing an offer to end the war.
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