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.

US President Donald Trump struck an optimistic tone on his Ukraine peace push after Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Trump described the talk as “a very good meeting,

WASHINGTON — Special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will brief Ukraine’s lead negotiator Thursday in Miami after Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on Tuesday rejected the latest 19-point peace plan hammered out with Kyiv officials in Geneva last week.

Witkoff and Kushner met with Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.

The president downplayed a report that his special envoy advised Russian officials on a peace plan.

U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has an appointment at the Kremlin, but his peace proposals seem like they will be dead on arrival. Witkoff will fly to Moscow on Tuesday with a new plan for peace hashed out among himself,

Aide to the President Yury Ushakov : As you know, the President’s meeting with two representatives of US President Donald Trump – Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner – has just ended.

The American at the forefront of negotiating an end to the Ukraine war is not a veteran diplomat or the US secretary of state but a billionaire real estate developer, Steve Witkoff.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is showing no signs of compromise, the BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg says. It comes after Russian officials said "no compromise" was reached during five hours of talks between Putin and US envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday.