Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff held a second round of talks — without Secretary of State Marco Rubio — with a top Ukrainian negotiator who previously led Witkoff to believe Kyiv was willing to accept a peace proposal highly favorable to Russia .

Witkoff, who will meet Kremlin officials in Moscow Tuesday, spoke with Secretary of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov after a sitdown involving full US and Ukrainian delegations a day earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Monday.

Witkoff previously met Umerov in Miami last month, at which time the two discussed a 28-point plan that would have seen Kyiv agree to several red-line measures, such as US recognition of some Ukrainian territory as Russian — including land Moscow has been unable to occup

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