Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, is heading to Miami for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, a Russian source told Reuters.

The news conference comes just before US meetings are held in Miami on the Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan and the war in Ukraine.

Once again there is an impasse in the attempts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. A five-hour meeting in the Kremlin between the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the US team led by Donald Trump’s envoys, businessmen Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, has failed to make any significant progress.

U.S. and Russian officials are expected to hold talks in Miami, Florida, this weekend about a possible deal to end the war in Ukraine, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

The U.N. passed the resolution on Thursday, with few countries—such as Russian ally Belarus, China and North Korea —voting against it. A representative of the U.S. delegation said its vote was not related to its stance on Ukraine or nuclear safety, but to the resolution's references to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

A liquefied natural gas tanker linked to a Chinese company docked at a US-sanctioned Russian export project for the first time, the latest step by Moscow and Beijing to strengthen energy ties and skirt western curbs.