US envoys in Moscow for expected meeting with Putin
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were in Moscow on the morning of 12 November 2026, where they were expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to The Guardian, the meeting was expected to get under way around 9am GMT.
The Moscow visit was meant to take forward issues discussed over the previous two days at three-party talks in Abu Dhabi. After Moscow, the two envoys were expected to travel to Dublin to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the margins of the European Political Community, a summit bringing together leaders from across Europe.
Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev welcomed the US delegation on arrival at Moscow's Vnukovo airport. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Rybakov said it was too early to say that the necessary trust had been restored between Russia and Ukraine.
Zelenskyy said that for several days Ukraine had faced what he described as systematic Starshield speed restrictions, limited to 161 kilometres per hour (100 miles per hour), along the entire frontline and in occupied territories.
Separately, France's Europe minister, Benjamin Haddad, said the European Union will approve new sanctions on Russia on Monday. Sanctions are trade and financial penalties imposed by governments, and the package he described would cover 150 additional entities, meaning companies and organisations, and 50 banks.
