Donald Trump's son-in-law and special envoy headed to the Kremlin Tuesday for high-stakes talks on Moscow's offensive in Ukraine, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for an end to the fighting and a "dignified peace".

Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff were due to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin after days of frenzied diplomacy from Florida to Geneva to Abu Dhabi left Washington "optimistic" it could help end Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.

They are expected to present Putin with a new version of US plan to end the war, hammered out in recent days after an earlier version raised fears in Kyiv and elsewhere in Europe that it made too many concessions to Moscow.

A Ukrainian delegation could then meet with Witkoff and Kushner as soon as Wednesday,

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