Kushner and Witkoff landed in Moscow.

MOSCOW — Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff landed in Moscow on Thursday for talks with President Vladimir Putin. Reuters reported the arrival. Witkoff, U.S. special envoy, is meeting Putin in person for the tenth time. Kirill Dmitriev, special envoy to Putin, met them at the plane and went with them into the city. The talks were expected in the first half of the day.

Abu Dhabi ended on Wednesday. Another large prisoner exchange is planned. There was no public breakthrough. It was the first direct negotiation between Russia and Ukraine, with the United States in the middle, in nine months. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators reported some progress. The United States said differences remain on major issues, including territory. Kyiv has rejected the demand from Putin to give up all of Donbas. With the land question stuck, the mediators steered the work toward security guarantees after the war, and toward reconstruction. Reuters reported no sign of a major compromise, despite optimism President Trump has voiced in public.