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White House envoy Steve Witkoff is in Moscow talking with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The clock's ticking on President Trump's demand that Russia end its war in Ukraine by Friday or face massive economic penalties.
NPR's Charles Maines reports from Moscow.
Witkoff is well known in the Kremlin,
having already met with Putin four times this year alone to discuss the possibility of peace in Ukraine.
Yet this visit comes as Trump has publicly and even profanely expressed his his frustrations with Russia's ongoing attacks on Ukrainian cities despite months of U.S.-led peace efforts.
Trump says he'll place steep secondary tariffs and sanctions on countries like China and India that purchase Russian energy exports
if Putin doesn't stop the fighting.
Putin has never directly responded to Trump's threats,
but recently noted that inflated expectations inevitably led to disappointments and argued effective diplomacy was best done out of the public eye.
Charles Mainz, NPR News.
Moscow.