Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner arrive at Kremlin after 3½-hour lunch with Putin's envoy Dmitriev – videos
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5 September, 19:40
The US envoys’ motorcade on its way to the Kremlin. Screenshot from a RIA Novosti video
US President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived at the Kremlin after a business lunch with Kirill Dmitriev, a special envoy of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency RIA Novosti
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Quote: "Witkoff and Kushner's motorcade has entered the Kremlin grounds, RIA Novosti's correspondent reports.
Before that, the American negotiators spent three and a half hours having a business lunch with Dmitriev."
Details: Russian media outlets later released a video showing the start of the meeting between Putin and the US negotiators.
Background:
- Witkoff and Kushner arrived in Moscow on 5 September. The US negotiators are expected to arrive in Kyiv on Sunday.
- On the afternoon of 5 September, the Kremlin announced that Putin has ordered that no strikes be carried out on Kyiv for three days, starting from midnight.
- After speaking with Trump's special envoys, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Kyiv is willing to halt airstrikes on the cities involved in the negotiating process.
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