The trip to Moscow is the second since last year for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is widely considered Putin’s closest partner among all EU leaders.

The Kremlin’s top foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov confirmed there is a “preliminary agreement” for U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff to visit Moscow.

President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff will travel next week to Moscow as momentum builds for a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday the resignation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff had plunged the country into a deep political crisis.

President Vladimir Putin’s former deputy chief of staff wrote a letter criticizing Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and presented it to the president before stepping down earlier this year, the investigative outlet Agentstvo reported Friday,

Steve Witkoff is set to travel to Moscow following a Bloomberg report detailing a leaked Oct. 14 phone call between Witkoff and a Kremlin official.

A Treasury Department analysis indicates that new U.S. sanctions on Russian oil producers have sent prices there tumbling, choking off a key revenue source that Russia has used to fund its war in Ukraine.

Yuri Ushakov says many elements of US proposal are ‘acceptable,’ warns of speculation surrounding draft - Anadolu Ajansı