The first footage of Steve Witkoff in Moscow probably won't fill Ukraine and its allies with confidence.

The US Special Envoy can be seen strolling leisurely through a park near the Kremlin, alongside Russia's investment chief Kirill Dmitriev.

Witkoff has his shades on and is in no obvious hurry.

Image: Witkoff took an early morning walk through Zaryadye Park, a stone's throw from the Kremlin, with Kirill Dmitriev. Pic: Zvezda

In another video, he is smiling and shaking hands with Vladimir Putin - not the look of a man who is supposedly in town to talk tough with the Russian president.

Despite the laid-back appearance of its emissary, though, there is a sense the Trump administration's stance towards Moscow has substantially hardened.

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