A senior Kremlin official confirmed Wednesday that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is set to visit Moscow next week as efforts to find a consensus on ending the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine pick up speed.

But Yuri Ushakov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, insisted that Kremlin officials still have not seen a U.S. peace proposal , even though representatives of the United States, Russia and Ukraine held talks in Abu Dhabi earlier this week.

“Contact is ongoing, including via telephone, but no one has yet sat down at a round table and discussed this point-by-point. That hasn’t happened,” Ushakov told Russian state media.

Ukrainian officials didn’t confirm whether U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll , who in recent weeks has played a high-pro

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