Steve Witkev arrives in Moscow for peace talks with the Kremlin

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It is expected that Steve Whitchov, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, will meet in Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday amid the struggling White House efforts to expand the end of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Witkoff arrived on Friday morning in Moscow, according to Interfax, for his fourth meeting with the Russian president this year.

In a sign that the full invasion of Ukraine is not closer to the end of more than three years after Putin’s request, a senior Russian military officer was assassinated on Friday morning when a Witkeov plane approached the capital.

Officials said Yarroslav Muscalik, deputy head of the main operations directorate of general employees, was killed in a car standing outside a residential building in Al -Sheikha, one of the eastern suburbs in Moscow.

Meanwhile, in eastern Ukraine, a Russian drone attack was killed by three people and 10 others were injured when one of them hit a residential building. The father of the elderly and his son were killed in the nearby village of Yarova, when Russia led 250 kg air bomb at their home.

The attacks followed the most deadly air strike on Kiev this year early on Thursday, which killed 12 civilians and wounded 90 others – and a rare reprimand from Trump in which he urged the Russian president to stop the “unnecessary” attacks. “Vladimir, stop!” He wrote on his social network for the truth.

Pay for a quick end to Putin War in Ukraine – Which prompted the United States to adopt many Kremlin sites – greatly stumbled on Moscow’s strict requirements.

Putin told Wittov in his last meeting in Saint Petersburg this month that Russia was ready to abandon its demands of four parts partially occupied Ukrainian regions that are still under Kiev’s control.

Then the United States pushed a peace plan that included awareness in the inclusion of “Russia” for the year 2014 of the Crimea, and at least recognizes actual control over parts of the four regions – Donetsk, Luhanssk, Jeruson and Zaburisvia – currently occupying.

However, Ukraine excluded approval of any proposal recognized by Russia, prompting Trump to come out with President Voludmir Zelinski for the deal.

It is not clear what Russia presented, if any, on that, or whether it has agreed to other elements of the Trump plan.

Trump said on Thursday that Russia had provided a “great privilege” in “stopping taking the entire country”, and suggested that Ukraine be abandoned more lands as part of any peace deal.

The Kremlin ruled out some points of the plan, such as the European Peace Conservation Force in Ukraine, with the payment of others, including the recognition of Crimea and the lifting of Western sanctions against Russia.

Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, said on Thursday that Moscow “is ready to reach a deal, but there are still some specific points-elements of this deal that you need to control.”

“There are many signs that we move in the right direction,” Lavrov said, noting that Trump admits “the need to address the radical causes of the situation,” which he said includes ending the Ukraine campaign to join NATO.

The United States has excluded any possibility of Ukraine to join the coalition or regain control of its full lands – two of the main demands of Russia.

Trump has repeatedly suggested to stay away from the efforts made by the United States to mediate in a deal if it was not met quickly, leaving Kiev facing the possibility of defending himself against the Russian army with a significant decrease in Western military support.