The US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Ukraine’s national security council chief, Rustem Umerov, in Miami on Thursday as Washington steps up its diplomatic push to secure a pathway to peace in Ukraine .

Witkoff, accompanied by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, spent nearly five hours in talks with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday. Moscow later said the meeting had not brought the sides any closer to a peace agreement.

Trump on Wednesday described the discussions in Moscow as “reasonably good”, though he acknowledged that the path ahead for Ukraine peace talks remained unclear.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said Putin would like to make a deal but “what comes out of that meeting I can’t tell you because it does take two to tango”. T

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