Kirill Dmitriev, special envoy of the Russian president and chief executive of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), met in New York with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, according to TASS, which attributed the report to CNN sources; the three discussed US-Russia cooperation and a peaceful resolution to the war in Ukraine, the Russian agency reports; TASS adds that Witkoff and Kushner visited Moscow on September 5, 2026, where President Vladimir Putin received them, and met Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Kyiv the following day.