MOSCOW, June 9 -- The conversation happened on Sunday. By Tuesday morning, Moscow still did not know what was said.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on June 9 that the United States had not yet transmitted the substance of the June 8 phone call between US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The call had been characterized by Zelensky as "very positive." Russia was waiting.

"It has just taken place, they have not brought it to us yet," Peskov told reporters, adding that US negotiators would promptly inform Moscow of any developments from the conversation that required Russia's attention. The qualifier mattered: Moscow was not asserting a right to a full readout, but signaling it exp...