Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, will travel to Moscow on Monday, a U.S. official tells Fox News.
The trip comes as peace talks between Ukraine and Russia show signs of progress, with the White House pushing a peace plan to end the nearly four-year-long war.
On Sunday, Witkoff — a central figure in negotiating the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas — joined Secretary of State Marco Rubio and senior advisor Jared Kushner in Florida to meet with Ukrainian negotiators.
Rubio described the meeting as « very productive. » In a statement, Rubio said that the end goal is « not just the end of the war. »
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« Obviously, that’s essential and fundamental. We want to see the end of the killing and the death and the suffering, and I’m sure the Ukrainian side, I know they do as well, » Rubio said.
« They want peace. But it’s also about securing an end to the war that leaves Ukraine sovereign and independent and with an opportunity at real prosperity. »
Last week, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow could reject the White House’s peace deal framework if it does not uphold the « spirit and letter » of what President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to at the Alaska summit in August.
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He warned that if the terms of the « key understandings » are « extinguished » then the situation would become « fundamentally different. »
Despite Lavrov’s comments, Putin showed interest in Trump’s plans to end the war on Thursday, calling the drafted plans a starting point.
« We need to sit down and discuss this seriously, » Putin told reporters, according to The Associated Press.
Trump’s plan as « a set of issues put forward for discussion » rather than a draft agreement.
« Every word matters, » Putin added.
Fox News Digital’s Sarah Tobianski, Kyle Schmidbauer and Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.
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