While Washington awaits Moscow’s response to the proposed 30-day ceasefire, Russian President Vladimir Putin is giving an answer of sorts, unleashing another night of drone and missile attacks across a wide area of Ukraine and donning military garb to visit his troops on the front line in Kursk,

Russian forces have driven the Ukrainian army out of the biggest town in Russia's Kursk border region, officials claimed Thursday, as U.S. officials sought the Kremlin's response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire in the three-year war that Ukraine has endorsed.

President Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Thursday ahead of his meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin, according to flightradar data and a source familiar with the trip.