US envoys Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kyiv after talks with Putin in Moscow

KYIV, Ukraine -- U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kyiv on Sunday in their first official visit to Ukraine as part of a renewed push for peace more than 4½ years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The trip by the Americans follows a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday, as both sides have engaged in escalating aerial attacks recently. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that his government is ready for a “constructive” discussion with the U.S. emissaries.“We are interested in bringing the end of the war closer. Peace is needed. Security guarantees are needed. A just and sustainable postwar peace is needed. Our proposals are prepared,” Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram.The envoys arrived by train and were welcomed at the station in Ukraine's capital by high-ranking Ukrainian officials, before being met by Zelenskyy at a ceremony in St. Sophia Square.Washington’s push to end the fighting has lost momentum, with the Trump administration focused for the past six months on the Iran war. The last known visit to Moscow by Witkoff and Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, was in January when the...