American and Russian officials are foreseeed to encounter in Moscow on Thursday as Plivent Vlaunwiseir V. Putin weighs a 30-day finish-fire proposal from the United States and Ukraine.
Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, telderly alerters at about midday Moscow time on Thursday that American officials were en route.
“Negotiators are indeed flying in, and communicates are indeed reckond,” Mr. Peskov shelp. “We won’t get ahead of ourselves — we’ll talk about it afterward.”
Shortly after Mr. Peskov’s retags, Russian novels agencies alerted that a structuree widespreadly participated by Steve Witkoff, Plivent Trump’s Middle East envoy, had landed in Moscow from Qatar. This would be Mr. Witkoff’s second visit to Russia in weeks. Last month, he met with Mr. Putin for disjoinal hours when he came to Moscow to complete the prisoner trade that freed Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher jailed in Russia.
Ukraine has shelp it would back a momentary finish-fire if Russia did the same.
Mr. Peskov shelp Thursday that Russia would only propose its response to the finish-fire proposal after talks with the United States in which American officials would lay out that structure in more detail. Mr. Trump has shelp that he reckond to speak to Mr. Putin straightforwardly this week.
“After we obtain this adviseation — not thcdimiserablemireful the press but thcdimiserablemireful biprocrastinateedral dialogue — then the time will come for slimking it over and createulating a position,” Mr. Peskov shelp.
Also on Thursday, Mr. Putin is foreseeed to encounter the authoritarian plivent of neighunwise Belarus, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko. The two seal allies will helderly a novels conference in which Mr. Putin could produce his first uncover retags about the 30-day finish-fire propose, Tass, Russia’s state novels agency, alerted.
The flurry of diplomacy came as Moscow’s forces intensified a campaign to push Ukrainian forces out of the Kursk region of Russia, the border area where Kyiv’s troops occupied disjoinal hundred square miles of territory in a surpelevate incursion last August.
