MOSCOW - US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Thursday morning for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine, according to reports from ABC News and BBC News. ABC News reported that Witkoff, described as President Donald Trump's special envoy, and Kushner, the president's son-in-law, landed in Moscow that morning, and its headline framed the visit as a discussion of Ukraine peace talks.
The Guardian reported in a live blog by Jakub Krupa that the envoys were expected to meet Putin around 9am GMT to advance some of the issues discussed at trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi over the last two days. The blog's headline described the meeting as a discussion of a Ukraine ceasefire.
BBC News reported that the envoys arrived in Moscow for Ukraine talks with Putin and said that later on Thursday, Kushner and Witkoff would travel to Dublin to meet Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. The report did not give further details on the agenda for that meeting.
The three reports differ in how far the Moscow meeting had progressed. The Guardian described the meeting as expected, while ABC News and BBC News reported the envoys' arrival in Moscow. None of the summaries available for this story describe what was said in any meeting with Putin, or whether a ceasefire or peace agreement was reached.
The Guardian's account placed the Moscow visit within the broader effort that followed trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, which the report said covered issues that the envoys hoped to advance in Moscow. The available reports did not describe the outcome of those discussions or name the other parties to the trilateral talks.
Sources: The Guardian: US envoys expected to meet Putin in Moscow to discuss Ukraine ceasefire - Europe live; ABC News: Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Moscow to meet with Putin, discuss Ukraine peace talks; BBC News: US envoys arrive in Moscow for Ukraine talks with Vladimir Putin.