US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow Sep 5 with a new peace…

A renewed US diplomatic push arrived alongside continued fighting. Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow Sep 5 for talks with Putin, carrying what Trump described as a new proposal for a negotiated end to the war; they're expected in Kyiv next to meet Zelensky. As a gesture tied to the visit, Putin ordered a three-day halt to strikes specifically on Kyiv, and Zelensky reciprocated by pledging to refrain from strikes on Moscow through the visit. The gesture was narrow: Russia continued striking elsewhere in Ukraine overnight, killing at least 6 and injuring 51, including 4 killed in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's Kamianske and a drone strike on SBU headquarters in central Kyiv that injured 12 hours before the pause technically began. The Kremlin restated that Putin's core demand — Ukraine ceding the entirety of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, and abandoning NATO membership — remains 'unshakeable.' Kyiv has said it's open to talks with front lines frozen but continues to reject territorial concessions. On Ukraine's battlefield numbers, Russian combat losses reached approximately 1,495,050 as of Sep 5 (+1,260). On Iran, the US-Iran exchange continues in the wake of the Pentagon's disclosure a day earlier that 767 US troops have been wounded in the current round of fighting.