Steve Witkoff arrives in Moscow for peace talks with Kremlin

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Steve Witkoff, the special representative of US President Donald Trump, is expected to meet Wladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday, while the powding efforts of the White House to end an end of Russia invasion to Ukraine.

According to Interfax, Witkoff came to his fourth meeting with the Russian president this year on Friday morning.

In one sign, the full invasion of Ukraine is not in the end more than three years after Putin’s arrangement, a high -ranking Russian military officer was murdered on Friday morning when Witkoff’s aircraft approached the capital.

Officials said that Yaroslaw Moskalik, the deputy head of the main directorate of the Russian general staff, was killed in an automotive bombs in front of a residential building in Balashikha, an eastern suburb of Moscow.

In eastern Ukraine, three people killed in a Russian drone attack on the city of Pavlohrad and injured 10 more when a residential building was met. An older father and his son were killed in the nearby village of Yarova when a Russian 250 kg led air bomb fell into their house.

The attacks followed the deadliest air raid on Kyiv this year in the early Thursday, in which 12 civilians were killed and 90 more wounded – and a rare complaint from Trump, in which he asked the President of Russia to stop the “unnecessary” attacks. “Vladimir, stop!” He wrote in his social network of truth.

The advance after a quick end of Putin’s war in Ukraine, which caused the United States to take over some of the Kremlin’s own positions, has largely dealt with the tough demands of Moscow.

Putin told Witkoff at her last meeting in St. Petersburg this month that Russia was willing to give its demands on areas of four partially occupied Ukrainian regions that remain under Kyiv.

The United States then promoted a peace plan that recognized the recognition of Russia -Anexion of the Criminal Insula in 2014 and at least its de facto control over the parts of the four regions -Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia -which is currently taking into account.

However, Ukraine has ruled out to agree to a proposal that recognizes Russia’s annexation, and caused Trump to apply President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to handle the deal.

It is unclear what Russia has offered, if at all, further concessions or whether it has agreed to other elements of Trump’s plan.

Trump said on Thursday that Russia had made a “fairly large concession” at “taking the whole country” and suggested that Ukraine had to give up more territory as part of a peace agreement.

The Kremlin has excluded some points of the plan, such as:

Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, said on Thursday that Moscow was “ready to achieve a deal, but there are still some specific points elements of this deal that have to be fine”.

Lavrov said: “There are several signs that we move in the right direction” and cite Trump’s recognition that “the need to fix the basic causes of the situation” to end the Ukrainian effort to join NATO.

The United States has excluded any view of Ukraine that is followed by Allianz or restores control over its full territory – two of the main requirements in Russia.

Trump repeatedly proposed to leave us from the US efforts to convey a deal if a result is not caught up quickly, so that Kyiv was exposed to the view of the defense against the Russia’s army with significantly reduced military support from the Western military.