Amid a renewed U.S.-led diplomatic drive to end the Ukraine war, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russia's Vladimir Putin for a sixth time.

The US officials invited Kyiv’s national security advisor Rustem Umerov to Florida for discussions after leaving their Tuesday meeting with Putin at the Kremlin without an agreement in hand.

During Trump’s first term, Kushner led the president’s push for Arab states to normalise ties with Israel. More recently he was called on to help broker a deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Now his task is to silence the guns and drones on the front lines in the Donbas. Kushner did not respond to a request for an interview for this article.

The Russian president met Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the Kremlin. The Trump administration is trying to broker a peace deal.