🔴 Trump's envoys Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kyiv after 'substantive' talks with Putin

American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner discussed "substantive plans" for next steps to end the war in Ukraine during their meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the White House said, before they headed to Kyiv on Sunday. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said the three-hour talks had been "highly useful" but gave no indication that a breakthrough had been reached. Follow our liveblog for all the latest updates. US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Kyiv by train on for their first visit to Ukraine for talks on how to end the war with Russia, a day after meeting Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow. They are due to hold talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Moscow and Kyiv exchange fire ahead of Ukraine meeting with US envoys Russia and Ukraine continued to target each other with drone and missile strikes overnight into Sunday. Moscow launched 108 drones and S8000 Banderol missiles at Ukraine, Kyiv's air force said, adding that it had shot down the majority of the drones and missiles and that 11 areas across the country had been hit by the bombardment. For its part, Russia's military said that it had neutralised 258 Ukrainian drones fired at Russia overnight. Independent Russian media outlet ASTRA said that a refinery in the town of Riazan had been hit, sparking a fire. In Zaporizhzhia, Russian 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, Ukraine's state emergency service said. 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. This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian State Emergency Service on September 6, 2026 shows rescuers working at the site of a Russian strike in Kyiv region. Ukrainian State Emergency Service via AFP. Zelensky calls for security guarantees ahead of meeting with US envoys Russian President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev posted a photo of US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner leaving Moscow via Vnukovo International Airport on Saturday, hailing the meeting with Putin earlier that day as an "important peacemaking visit". Dmitriev was part of the Russian delegation attending the meeting. Moscow says it has not ruled out trilateral meeting between presidents of Russia, US, China, TASS reports Russia's Deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said that the possibility of a trilateral meeting between the presidents of Russia, the US and China has not been ruled out, state news agency TASS reported. But he said that before moving on to the actual preparations for the meeting, it was necessary to understand what its agenda will be. "Here, the main question boils down to how the substance of the meeting will be formulated, and what we can expect as a result." Earlier this month, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov raised the possibility of such a meeting between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzen, China, in November. 'A bad sign': US envoys head to Kyiv after meeting Putin in Moscow As US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner head to Kyiv following what the White House described as "substantive" talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, FRANCE 24 correspondent Gulliver Cragg talks about what he describes as a climate of scepticism in Ukraine that these latest negotiations could bring a long-awaited breakthrough. Witkoff and Kushner head to Kyiv after three-hour talks with Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin on Saturday for renewed talks on ending Russia's war in Ukraine. The meeting, which lasted more than three hours behind closed doors, ended without announcements of any breakthroughs. Speaking to journalists afterward, Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov described them as constructive, frank and useful, but didn't talk about specific outcomes. Witkoff and Kushner are expected in Kyiv on Sunday. Both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have agreed to pause strikes on each other’s capitals while the talks took place. US envoys discussed 'substantive plans' for Ukraine with Putin, White House says US President Donald Trump's business partner Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner discussed "substantive plans" for next steps toward ending the Ukraine war during their meeting Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House said. The US envoys "discussed substantive plans for next steps, which will be announced in the coming weeks, and look forward to equally productive meetings tomorrow in Ukraine", a White House official said in a statement to AFP.