{"id":836219,"date":"2026-09-04T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836219\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:10:10","slug":"us-envoys-headed-to-russia-and-ukraine-to-relaunch-mediation-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836219\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoys headed to Russia and Ukraine to relaunch mediation | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States envoys are expected to arrive in Kyiv and Moscow over the weekend, in an apparent bid to revive negotiations aimed at ending Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late on Thursday that US negotiators were set for meetings in both capitals \u201cin the coming days\u201d and that Ukraine is ready for substantive, high-level negotiations.<\/p>\n

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Russia\u2019s state news agency TASS reported on Friday that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would be in Moscow on September 5 and 6.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> envoys, who have not previously visited Kyiv, were most recently in the Russian capital in January. However, Washington\u2019s mediation efforts have all but halted since the US and Israel launched war on Iran in March.<\/p>\n

\"PARIS,Witkoff and Kushner are due in Moscow this weekend before heading to Kyiv, according to reports [File: Getty]<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy was enthusiastic in announcing the return of US-backed talks, despite Washington having previously been accused of adopting Russian narratives and demands for ending the war, primarily that Kyiv should hand over territory.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian president said in a late-night address that his country\u2019s negotiating team is in near-constant contact with the US side and preparing for talks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey confirmed they will have a meeting in Moscow and another one in Kyiv. We expect the latter to take place in the coming days. This is very important. It is important that America remain actively engaged,\u201d he said, adding that Ukraine is ready for substantive, high-level negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u2018New dynamic\u2019<\/p>\n

The TASS report said Witkoff and Kushner \u2013 respectively, Trump\u2019s real estate partner and son-in-law \u2013 will first arrive in Moscow. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to confirm reports at a later news briefing.<\/p>\n

However, with talks evidently taking place in the background, officials on both sides of the conflict appear to have new hope of progress towards a settlement.<\/p>\n

Following Kushner and Witkoff\u2019s last visit to Moscow, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov described talks as constructive, but said that \u201creaching a long-term settlement can\u2019t be expected without solving the territorial issue\u201d.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin had said recently that negotiations were \u201cfrozen\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, speaking at an economic forum in Russia\u2019s Far East on Thursday, he said that a number of countries, including the US and China, are ready to support a peace deal, and hinted at possible progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are grateful to everyone attempting \u2060to contribute to a settlement,\u201d he said, according to the Reuters news agency. \u201cIs there a chance? In my view, yes, there is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha earlier told reporters in Kyiv that he saw a \u201cnew dynamic\u201d \u2060coming in peace efforts, with more active political and diplomatic engagement.<\/p>\n

Strikes persist<\/p>\n

However, in the eight months since Witkoff and Kushner were last in Moscow, Russia and Ukraine have ramped up air attacks<\/a> deep inside the other\u2019s territory and at sea, as well as the fighting along the front line in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Russian attacks overnight killed at least three people in Ukraine, local officials said on Friday. Moscow\u2019s forces have relentlessly struck civilian areas over the four and a half years since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

A \u201cmassive\u201d overnight Russian attack on the southern Odesa region killed one person and injured at least five others, including a child, regional head Oleh Kiper said in a post on Telegram. The attacks damaged multiple residential buildings, including two multistorey blocks.<\/p>\n

Strikes in Dnipro in the east killed two police officers, officials said, while a drone attack in Kyiv injured three people after hitting a residential building.<\/p>\n

Ukraine, meanwhile, continues to concentrate strikes on Russia\u2019s energy infrastructure<\/a> and other economic targets, as it seeks to drain Moscow\u2019s funding for its war and encourage public anger over the conflict and its impact on the Russian population.<\/p>\n

A large-scale Ukrainian drone strike hit the Black Sea resort city of Sochi and the nearby district of Sirius, regional officials said, with fires reported at both locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States envoys are expected to arrive in Kyiv and Moscow over the weekend, in an apparent bid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1076,3,1206,963,1208,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24],"class_list":["post-836219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-europe","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-canada","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}