U.S. President Donald Trump's outgoing Ukraine envoy said a deal to end the Ukraine war was "really close" and depended on resolving just two major issues but the Kremlin said there had to be radical changes to some of the U.

There's an unsettling sense of deja vu about recent reports on the US-sponsored talks to reach a Ukraine-Russia peace deal. US envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, sat down with Vladimir Putin in Moscow for almost five hours last week,

Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to discuss a U.S.-backed peace proposal that was revised by American officials after recent negotiations with Ukrainian diplomats.