Overview

• Steve Witkoff is scheduled to arrive in Moscow on August 6 or 7 to negotiate terms for a Ukraine ceasefire
• President Trump has warned that Russia will face steep tariffs on its oil exports if it does not agree to halt fighting by August 8
• Two nuclear-capable submarines have been repositioned closer to Russian waters after an online row with former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
• Ukrainian and Russian forces have exchanged drone and missile strikes this week, including attacks that killed civilians in Zaporizhzhya and damaged an oil depot near Sochi
• Witkoff, a real estate magnate and Trump golf partner who has served as a White House envoy to President Putin, will lead the diplomatic mission