American envoys meet Zelenskyy after talks with Putin in Moscow

The two met with Zelenskyi for a few hours on Sunday after meeting Russia's Vladimir Putin the day before. Few details have been made public about what was discussed during the meeting in Moscow, but according to Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov, the talks were "extremely frank". - They put forward a number of ideas about possible ways to an agreement, he said after the meeting. According to Ushakov, Putin highlighted Russia's "success" on the battlefield as well as unchanged objectives in the war, reports the Russian state news agency Tass. Putin emphasized, as he has done since the beginning of the war, that the "root causes of the conflict" must be resolved. Witkoff and Kushner left Moscow by plane and arrived in Kiev by train on Sunday. It is their first official visit to Ukraine's wartime capital. Before the arrival of the Americans, Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media that "Ukraine is and will always be constructive". "We need peace. We need security guarantees. We need a decent peacetime after the war. Our proposals are prepared," he continued. Russia currently controls almost a fifth of Ukraine's territory and claims several regions in eastern Ukraine. From the American side, the White House announces that "concrete plans for the next step" have been discussed with the Kremlin, and that these will be made public in the coming weeks. At least eight people were killed and nearly 70 were injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine early Sunday, Ukrainian authorities say, writes The Kyiv Independent. Several of the deaths have been recorded in the regions of Kharkiv and Kherson, which were heavily shelled. According to Ukraine's air defense, over 100 drones and at least six robots were fired at the country. On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a three-day halt to all attacks on the capital, Kiev, due to the Americans' visit there.