00:01American Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner discussed what they called substantive plans
00:06for next steps to end the Ukraine war during their meeting with Russian President Vladimir
00:11Putin in Moscow, the White House said before they headed to Kiev on Sunday.
00:17Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov described the talks as constructive, frank
00:22and useful afterward, but didn't talk about specific outcomes. He said the Russian side
00:28told the Americans that Moscow was confident it could achieve its military goals of seizing the
00:33rest of eastern Ukraine. Both Russia and Ukraine vowed not to strike each other's capitals for
00:39three days to allow for the negotiations to take place. It was Kushner and Witkoff's eighth visit to
00:46Moscow during the war, but it's their first visit to the Ukrainian capital. U.S. efforts have so far
00:52not led to a breakthrough in the war, and peace efforts have stalled in part because of Washington's
00:57war with Iran. Russia has occupied large swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine,
01:03and Putin has insisted Moscow is intent on seizing the rest of eastern Ukraine.
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