The Donald Trump administration is planning another meeting between special envoy Steve Witkoff and senior Russian officials to get Moscow to accept its vision for peace in the Ukraine conflict, CNN says, citing an anonymous source.
Witkoff has already met with Russian President Vladimir Putin three times this year, as the US president tries to broker a ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow.
Commenting on his meeting with Putin in Moscow last Friday, Witkoff told Fox News that the nearly five-hour talks were "convincing" and that the Kremlin was seeking a permanent solution to the conflict in Ukraine.
In the CNN article, a source was quoted as saying that Washington's plan, which was reportedly presented to Ukrainian officials and European leaders during a high-level meeting in Paris on Thursday, calls for a ceasefire along the current front line.
The US government has also reportedly indicated its willingness to recognize Crimea as Russian territory.
Trump's special envoy claims that Moscow and Kiev "could be on the verge of something that would be very, very important for the world as a whole."
According to the American official, any possible peace agreement would include recognizing Crimea, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions as part of Russia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday that while "there are no clear outlines of any agreement yet," Moscow values "constructive and substantive" contact with the United States.