US Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on Thursday morning and were greeted by Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev ahead of Kremlin talks with President Vladimir Putin. During the meeting, the US envoys plan to reiterate a request for Moscow to draft a new European security proposal that outlines Russian steps to ease tensions with the continent, and to press Putin to allow European representatives into the next round of peace negotiations, Axios reported. After the Moscow talks, Witkoff and Kushner will fly to Dublin to consult with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit.

The shuttle diplomacy follows two days of US-mediated trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi — the first direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine since February — and an overnight Russian ballistic missile strike on Kyiv hours after the sessions ended Wednesday. In the UAE, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire and territorial swaps, with Medinsky telling Russian state television that “wherever the foot of our Russian soldier has stepped, that is ours” and calling for a “new, modern Yalta and Potsdam” to overhaul European security.