Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kyiv for second leg of US diplomacy push

US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner travelled to Kyiv on Sunday after concluding intensive talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as Washington renews its push to end the war in Ukraine.

It marks their first visit to the Ukrainian capital since the war began and comes amid near-constant Russian missile and drone strikes on the Ukrainian capital.

Zelensky has said that an acute shortage of air defense interceptors has left Ukraine vulnerable to ballistic missile attacks.

Witkoff and Kushner made a stop in the Polish city of Rzeszow en route from Moscow to Kyiv, Russian state media outlet TASS reported. The plane landed at 1:31 a.m. local time. The US envoys most likely continued their journey by rail, it reported.

Russia and Ukraine have enacted a 72-hour temporary truce for the duration of the US envoys’ visits, specifically halting airstrikes on each other’s capitals, Kyiv and Moscow. The halt in strikes began at midnight on Friday into Saturday and will last for the duration of the weekend of diplomacy.

The truce applies only to the two capital cities, and overnight attacks into Sunday saw Russia continue its bombardment of Ukraine while avoiding Kyiv city. According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russian forces launched 108 Shahed-type drones fired from Russia, while at least three people were killed in the latest strikes and infrastructure was hit in Kyiv region.

Russian airstrikes were recorded in 11 locations across Ukraine, while a large-scale fire has been extinguished at an infrastructure facility in Kyiv region as a result of a Russian strike.

In total, 10 Ukrainian civilians have been killed over the past 24 hours, and a further 65 injured.

Witkoff and Kushner began their whirlwind weekend of diplomacy with a three-hour meeting with Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday afternoon. The negotiations were followed by dinner with the Russian leader, according to a Kremlin press briefing.

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov later described the talks as “useful” and said the American representatives had “prepared seriously for this trip.” He said the US team expressed interest in ending hostilities as quickly as possible and offered “a whole series of considerations regarding possible paths to a settlement.”

A White House official said both sides “discussed substantive plans for next steps, which will be announced in the coming weeks.”

CNN’s Tim Lister, Charlotte Reck and Jonny Hallam contributed to this report.

美国特使史蒂夫·威特科夫和总统唐纳德·特朗普的女婿贾里德·库什纳在莫斯科与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京结束密集会谈后，于周日前往基辅，华盛顿方面再次努力结束乌克兰战争。

这是他们自战争开始以来首次访问乌克兰首都，而此时俄罗斯正对乌克兰首都进行几乎不间断的导弹和无人机袭击。

泽连斯基表示，防空拦截器严重短缺，使乌克兰容易受到弹道导弹袭击。

据俄罗斯塔斯社报道，维特科夫和库什纳在从莫斯科飞往基辅的途中，在波兰城市热舒夫停留。飞机于当地时间凌晨1点31分降落。报道称，两位美国特使很可能随后乘火车继续他们的旅程。

俄罗斯和乌克兰已达成一项为期72小时的临时停火协议，以配合美国特使的访问，具体而言，双方停止对对方首都基辅和莫斯科的空袭。停火从周五午夜开始，持续到周六凌晨，并将持续到外交斡旋结束。

停火协议仅适用于乌克兰和乌克兰的首都。周日凌晨，俄罗斯继续轰炸乌克兰，但避开了基辅市。据乌克兰空军称，俄军从俄罗斯境内发射了108架“沙赫德”型无人机，最新一轮空袭造成至少3人死亡，基辅地区的基础设施遭到破坏。

俄罗斯空袭发生在乌克兰境内 11 个地点，同时，由于俄罗斯的空袭，基辅地区一处基础设施发生的大火已被扑灭。

过去 24 小时内，共有 10 名乌克兰平民丧生，另有 65 人受伤。

维特科夫和库什纳的旋风式周末外交活动于周六下午在克里姆林宫与普京举行了三个小时的会晤。据克里姆林宫新闻发布会称，会谈结束后，他们与这位俄罗斯领导人共进晚餐。

克里姆林宫助手尤里·乌沙科夫后来称会谈“富有成效”，并表示美国代表“为此次访问做了充分准备”。他说，美方团队表示有意尽快结束敌对行动，并提出了“一系列关于可能的解决方案的考虑”。

一位白宫官员表示，双方“讨论了下一步的实质性计划，这些计划将在未来几周内公布”。

CNN的蒂姆·利斯特、夏洛特·雷克和乔尼·哈勒姆对本报道亦有贡献。