France, Sept. 5 -- After talks in Moscow, the pair are expected to travel to Kyiv as part of Washington's latest bid to break a diplomatic stalemate.

It will be the first time that Trump's businessman friend Witkoff and son-in-law Kushner have visited Kyiv since Trump returned to office last year with a pledge to resolve the conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of trying to disrupt the envoys' visit with strikes on Friday night on Kyiv's two airports, as well as on a civilian target in the Dnipro region that killed five people.

"Clearly, these Russian strikes on the airports are a reaction to the discussions and preparations for the possibility of the US side using an aircraft to travel to Ukraine," Zelensky ...