US peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday as the Trump administration renewed its push to end Russia's four-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine.Kushner and Witkoff travelled from Moscow, where they held three hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday but did not appear to secure a breakthrough.Previous rounds of US-mediated peace talks encouraged by President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a promise to quickly end the war, have yielded few results. He suggested on Friday that the US had a fresh proposal though he did not elaborate.Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov described Saturday's meeting as “highly useful”, while a White House official said that next steps would be announced in the coming weeks.The two envoys met Mr Zelenskyy and other top Ukrainian officials in central Kyiv.Mr Zelenskyy, who believes Washington will be key to any peace deal, has said a window of opportunity to make peace exists before the US begins focusing on its next presidential election.After the first round of talks between Ukrainian and US negotiators that lasted about three hours, the US envoys said that they were looking forward to making more progress.“Substantive, important and we are very encouraged,” Mr Witkoff told reporters after the talks, which also included a working lunch.Mr Zelenskyy said that more t...
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