Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine.

The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had sent U.S. President Donald Trump a message about his proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine via Trump's special envoy and that there were grounds for "cautious optimism.

The Russian president welcomed the special envoy of his American counterpart on Thursday night – Putin supports Trump’s stance on resolving the Ukraine issue but says there are questions that need to be answered,

President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Thursday to begin discussions with the Kremlin on a U.S.-brokered 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, which Kyiv has already agreed to,

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff visits Moscow as Russia claims to have recaptured key towns in Kursk region from Ukraine.

With Ukraine signed up to US proposals for a 30-day ceasefire, the pressure is now on the Kremlin to decide whether it too will accept President Donald Trump’s plan to bring the Ukraine war to a halt,

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it needed to be briefed by the United States on the outcome of U.S.-Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia before commenting on whether a proposed ceasefire in Ukraine was acceptable to Russia.

U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday night, Politico reported, citing Russian state-owned news outlet Izvestia. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu;

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked for messages to be relayed to US counterpart Donald Trump during late-night talks with American envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow, the Kremlin said.