President Donald Trump’s trusted foreign envoy Steve Witkoff is due in Moscow on Wednesday after the Kremlin requested a meeting with him in a last-ditch effort to avoid the punishing new sanctions Trump has threatened to impose this week,

As U.S. President Donald Trump trades barbs with Russian officials amid growing tensions, he has announced he may send his special envoy Steve Witkoff to Russia this week. The visit, which Russia has yet to confirm,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he held a "productive conversation" with his US counterpart Donald Trump on Tuesday ahead of a trip by Washington's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow this week.