Live: Messengers from the USA. The US meets with Putin this Thursday after new attacks between Russia and Ukraine The US envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, met this Thursday, November 12, with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow. And later, with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Dublin, in the midst of a new day of attacks between Russia and Ukraine. The new mediation efforts to end the Russian invasion come after trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi and as Europe pushes to participate in the negotiations. Zelensky claims that he can open himself to the possibility of ending the war before 2027.