The special envoy Steve Witkoff already met with the president of Russia in February. His visit to Moscow will occur after conversations in Saudi Arabia between senior US officials, which include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Ukraine authorities.
The special envoy of US President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, plans a visit to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to two people informed of the plans.
The meeting will take place after a Meeting in Saudi Arabia Among the head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, and representatives of the Ukrainian government to probe a peace plan.
Witkoff, who is Trump's envoy for the Middle East, has played an increasingly important role in efforts to end the war in Ukraine, which lasts three years.
The sources, which spoke on anonymity condition, confirmed information from Bloomberg News that Witkoff would go to Moscow to hold conversations with Putin.
One of the sources said that Witkoff is expected to travel to Moscow this week. Trump has expressed his desire to meet with Putin and, since he assumed the position in January, he has struggled to turn the cold relations with Russia of the previous Biden government.
Witkoff met with Putin in Moscow last month and brought back American professor Marc Fogel, who had been sentenced to 14 years in a Russian prison after being arrested for having marijuana prescribed by a doctor.
American and Ukrainian officials began conversations on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, when the Ukrainian part is expected to present a high -fire high -fire plan with Russia. The Ukrainian plan includes stopping the attacks with long -range missiles and a truce that covers the Black Sea.
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, heads the Trump government delegation to Saudi Arabia.
The US managers planned to use the meeting in part to determine if Ukraine is willing to make material concessions to Russia to end the war, two high US positions said.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, did not participate in the meetings of Tuesday, in which Ukraine was represented by his chief of cabinet, Andriy Yermak, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ukrainian, Andrii Sybiha, the Minister of Defense, Rustem Umerov, and the military commander, Pavlo Palisa.
At the same time, the Russian army reported that its anti -aircraft defenses demolished 337 Ukrainian drones in more than 10 regions during the night, in what seems to be kyiv's greatest attack with unmanned planes in three years.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, said that more than 70 unmanned aircraft aimed the Russian capital and were demolished when they headed there.
(With information from Reuters and The Associated Press)