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U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow and Kiev to discuss a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, despite intensifying US efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, called on the alliance countries to increase military support for Kyiv.
“Our response is to increase support for Ukraine so that it has everything it needs,” Rutte said Monday in Brussels at a joint news conference with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa.
The statement by the NATO Secretary General came against the backdrop of a new intensification of mediation efforts by the administration of US President Donald Trump. In early September, US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner visited Moscow, where they held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and then went to Kyiv to meet with Vladimir Zelensky.
After the talks in Kyiv, Witkoff said that the American side expects to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict, and Kushner expressed hope for further progress.
Trump then announced his conversation with Putin.

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