Witkoff and Kushner hold Kyiv talks with Zelenskyy after Putin meeting

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on September 6, 2026, as Washington renewed efforts to negotiate an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

It was the two envoys’ first official visit to Ukraine. Their arrival followed a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on September 5, 2026, extending the diplomatic effort to direct discussions in the Ukrainian capital. Reuters reported that the Moscow talks lasted three hours without an apparent breakthrough.

Zelenskyy held three rounds of discussions with the Americans, with national security advisers from Britain, France and Germany joining the final session, according to the Associated Press. The agency reported that the US envoys gave an encouraging assessment of the talks.

The visit represents a new stage in the diplomatic push, but a positive assessment of a meeting does not establish that the parties have agreed terms to end the fighting. The talks took place more than four years after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.