00:02Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his forces to pause strikes on
00:06Kyiv while US peace envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow on Saturday.
00:11The visit comes after US President Donald Trump said Witkoff and Kushner would go to
00:16both Moscow and Kyiv this weekend with a plan to end more than four years of war in Ukraine.
00:33The duo is expected to head to Kyiv on Sunday in what will be their first visit to the city
00:38since Trump returned to the White House last year. Just hours before the announcement,
00:43Russian strikes were reported in Ukraine's Dnieper-Petrovsk, Mykolaiv, Odessa and Kyiv
00:48regions, killing at least five people according to local authorities.
00:53A day earlier, a Russian drone also hit the headquarters of Ukraine's security
00:58service in central Kyiv. Moscow said the three-day pause in strikes would go into effect from midnight
01:04on Saturday.
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