Ukraine Said to Offer New Proposals in Talks With US Envoy Witkoff

Ukraine presented new proposals in negotiations with United States special envoy Steve Witkoff, Sky News reported, citing an unnamed US official. The report did not disclose what the new ideas involved. The same official confirmed that Witkoff is due to sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow.

According to the US official cited by Sky News, the discussions are intended to expand on progress already achieved with Ukraine and Europe and to examine the proposals on the table. No further public readout of the talks was provided.

The diplomatic track unfolded alongside continued fighting. A Russian drone hit what Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko described as a "transport infrastructure facility" in the capital late Tuesday, starting a fire. Klitschko said emergency services were at the scene in a brief Telegram post that gave no additional information. Earlier, the mayor said Russian attacks on Kyiv on Tuesday killed one person and wounded 21 others.

Klitschko later said the number of people injured in the attacks on the capital on October 20 had risen to 21, with one person dead. Twelve of the wounded were taken to hospital, three of them in serious condition, he added. A drone struck a warehouse building in the Desnianskyi district, while another hit the grounds of a garage cooperative in Sviatoshynskyi, according to the mayor.

In Moscow, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said Russian air defenses intercepted three drones approaching the capital. He said the aircraft were brought down by the Defense Ministry's air defense systems. Emergency services were working at the sites where debris landed, he added.

Separately, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Elon Musk ordered a slowdown of Starlink in Ukraine "unilaterally" without consulting US President Donald Trump, citing unnamed US officials. Several other anonymous US officials contradicted that account, saying Musk discussed the matter with multiple senior figures in the Trump administration and ultimately with the president himself. The Journal also reported that Musk publicly told Ukrainian authorities the Starlink system cannot be used for offensive purposes.