Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sept. 4 that U.S.
presidential envoy Witkoff and presidential son‑in‑law Kushner plan to visit
Moscow and Kyiv on Sept. 5-6; he added officials will not pre‑announce contacts
but will notify when meetings occur. Peskov said the U.S. is still mediating and
Russia is willing to pursue a peaceful resolution, but reiterated that President
Putin's June 2024 peace conditions remain unchanged. He said there are currently
no specific preconditions for restarting a peace process, and repeated Putin's
June formulation that Russia will declare a ceasefire and begin negotiations
once Ukrainian forces withdraw from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson
regions and Kyiv declares it will not join NATO.
