President Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, traveled to Moscow on Saturday as part of a diplomatic mission to present a new proposal aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, Russian news outlets reported. President Trump confirmed on Friday that he had dispatched the pair to negotiate an end to the conflict, which escalated in 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n
“We have an idea for peace,” Trump told reporters. “I sent Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, two great negotiators. They’ve done a great job, and we sent them over to see whether or not we can get something done. And there may be a good chance that we’ll do it.” According to Russia’s state news agency Tass, the envoys were greeted at the airport by Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev.<\/p>\n
In Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on social media that he was preparing for a visit from Witkoff and Kushner on Sunday. He vowed to refrain from striking Russian targets while the U.S. delegation was in the country, stating, “Our goal is to make the visit and the talks with the U.S. side as constructive and substantive as possible. We need to look for real options for how to move this war toward an end.”<\/p>\n
This journey marks the first time the envoy and the president’s son-in-law have traveled to Ukraine since Trump returned to office on a pledge to resolve the conflict. Their previous meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in December 2025 lasted five hours and was described by a Russian official as “constructive,” though it ultimately failed to produce a breakthrough. In September 2025, Trump told CBS News he was committed to pursuing a peace deal, saying, “Something is going to happen, but they are not ready yet. But something is going to happen.”<\/p>\n
Diplomatic momentum appeared to stall after the U.S. launched an attack on Iran in February, sparking a six-month war. Renewed diplomatic efforts emerge as Russia and Ukraine continue to exchange long-range missile and drone strikes. Just hours before Trump’s announcement, a Russian drone hit the headquarters of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) in central Kyiv. Zelenskyy noted that the strike targeted the office of the agency’s acting chief and was the first attack on the SBU headquarters since the invasion began.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com\/cbsnews\/vr\/hls\/4797963_hls\/master.m3u8<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Trump’s envoys travel to Russia with a new plan to end the Ukraine war, as Zelenskyy prepares for their visit and vows to hold fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[210,1687,195,1688,34,26,914],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-jared-kushner","tag-russia","tag-steve-witkoff","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}