US President Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine are “very close to a deal” that would end their three-year war, after his envoy met with President Vladimir Putin on Friday in talks Moscow said were “constructive and very useful.

Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's special envoy, has landed in Moscow, Interfax news agency said. He is expected to meet Vladimir Putin later on Friday—his fourth meeting with the Russian president this year.

U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday at what Trump has said is a key moment in diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine. Witkoff has emerged as Washington's key interlocutor with Putin as Trump pushes for a deal to end the war,