The White House said it is "very optimistic" ahead of special envoy Steve Witkoff's meeting in Moscow on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as U.S. officials continue their push to end Russia's war against Ukraine.

The Kremlin on Tuesday said the meeting was expected to begin at about 5 p.m. local time, or about 9 a.m. ET, and that U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was expected to take part.

The high-stakes sit-down follows a series of meetings between top U.S. and Ukrainian officials, during which the parties sought to revise the original peace-plan proposal presented by the Trump administration to Ukraine last month.

Witkoff and other top U.S. officials -- including Kushner and Secretary of State Marco Rubio -- met on Sunday in Florida with a Ukrainian

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