Pope Leo XIV
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Witkoff and Kushner meet Putin in Moscow for over three hours ahead of Kyiv trip
US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on the evening of September 5, in the first in-person encounter between Trump's envoys and Putin in Moscow since January. After more than three hours of talks, Witkoff thanked Putin for ordering a three-day halt to strikes on Kyiv and Moscow during the envoys' travel, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Ukraine's reciprocal readiness to refrain from strikes on the Russian capital. The US envoys are scheduled to travel to Kyiv on September 6 for talks with Zelensky, while the Kremlin reiterated that its territorial and NATO-related demands remain "unwavering."