A special envoy for US President Donald Trump visits Russia, where Washington and Moscow entered time to overcome The ceasefire deal This would temporarily stop the war in Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Thursday that an American delegation will participate in discussions with their Russian counterparts, as Russia’s news agency reported that a plane carrying an American envoy Steve Witkev had landed in Moscow.

The development came as Russia claimed on Thursday that it recovered the main lands in the Cursk region of Ukraine, indicating its upper hand in the negotiations.

Witkoff, Trump envoy in the Middle East, plays a growing role in efforts to end the Ukraine war for three years.

“It is up to Russia now,” Trump said Trump on Wednesday. Ukraine said it would support.

Peskov will not comment on Moscow’s view of the ceasefire proposal. “Before the talks started, and they have not started yet, it would be wrong to talk about it in public places,” he told reporters.

However, the major assistants of Kremlin Yuri Ushakov, government television, said he spoke to the US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to determine Russia’s position on the ceasefire proposal.

“I mentioned our position that this is only a temporary period of the Ukrainian army, nothing more,” Oshkov, the former Ambassador of Washington, who talks about Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in the main foreign policy issues.

“It seems to me that no one needs any steps [merely] He imitates peaceful actions in this position. “

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski said that the lack of a “meaningful” response to the ceasefire plan in the United States indicated that the Kremlin wanted to continue fighting in Ukraine.

“Unfortunately, for more than a day, the world has not yet heard a meaningful response from Russia to the proposals presented,” he said. “We hope that the American pressure will be sufficient to force Russia to end the war,” Zellinski said in a statement on social media.

On Wednesday, Peskov said it is important not to “move forward” on the issue of responding to the ceasefire proposal and suggested that a phone call be made between the presidents Putin and Trump to discuss the matter.

Al -Hawi Al -Human Island Gabari, reports from Moscow on Thursday, said that Wittouf is scheduled to meet high -level Russian officials, including Putin.

“What we hear informally is that Russia is likely to hand over its list of demands before responding to this 30 -day proposal by the Americans. They will maintain their position they did in the past. They want Ukraine to drop its demands to join NATO. They do not want any foreign forces on Ukrainian lands, and they want to recognize about 20 percent of the Ukrainian lands occupied by Russia.”

The landing of the lands in Kursk

Before the talks, Putin ordered the rapid defeat of the Ukrainian forces in western Russia, where the Ministry of Defense said that the soldiers had regained its blackness, a major city in the Kursk region, and other settlements, from Ukraine.

Russia’s progress along the front in recent months and Trump’s attempt to conclude a peace deal to end the conflict for a period of three years has raised fears that Kiev had lost the war.

He wears a green camouflage, Putin was seen on Wednesday visiting Cursk region Where Ukraine is scheduled to lose a foothold after the lightning attack by the Russian forces.

“Our mission in the near future, in the shortest possible time frame is the firm defeat of the enemy in the Kursk region,” said Putin, a former KGB officer who rarely wearing a military uniform.

“Of course, we need to think about creating a security zone along the borders of the state,” Putin said. He did not mention the ceasefire plan.

The foreign policy analyst in Moscow, André Cortonov, a member of the discussion club in Valdei, told Al -Jazeera that by appearing in Korsk, “he wanted to advance his confidence that Russia was on the attack.”

“His message is that whatever Ukraine, which still controls the Kursk region, cannot be used as a kind of financial lever to make any regional,” he added during the talks.

Charles Stratford of the island, who was reported by Sumi in Ukraine, said Russian aircraft drones still reach locations inside the country.

He said: “The people we are talking to here are skeptical of any ceasefire agreement, if the Russians already agree to one.”

In early 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine left hundreds of thousands of people dead and injured, explained millions of people, underestimated cities to the rubble and raised the largest confrontation between Moscow and the West in six decades.