US envoys arrive in Moscow to meet Putin

Russian Prez has signalled an openness to talks, saying that proposals could be ‘the basis for future agreements’

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US envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin, who claimed a key Ukrainian city had fallen to Russia on the eve of Tuesday's talks about a potential peace plan to end his war.

Putin said Russian troops had taken the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region in a video announcement posted late Monday by the Kremlin, an advance that would be Russia’s most significant on the battlefield in nearly two years. Ukraine’s Military Staff spokesman Bohdan Senyk denied its forces had lost the city in a message early Tuesday.

Bloomberg isn’t able to independently verify the claims of either side.

Putin will meet with Witkoff and Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, for talks starting after 5 pm in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to the state-run Tass news service. They’re set to discuss the latest proposals for ending Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine following negotiations between US and Ukrainian officials in Florida.