U.S. President Donald Trump said he is sending special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week, which the Kremlin confirmed, as momentum builds to end the war in Ukraine. Kyiv has now tentatively agreed to an updated and refined peace plan after talks with the U.S. to address its concerns about Trump's original draft.

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Trump said Russia is "making concessions" and that he now has "no deadline" for the process after originally saying Ukraine had until Thanksgiving to decide. He said the sides are making good progress, but it is complicated, and the talks are ongoing. A deal is "very close," he said.

A leaked call from October showed Witkoff coaching top Kremlin officials on how to pitch Trump a Russian plan for ending the Ukraine

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