India, Nov. 26 -- Russia has confirmed that US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Moscow next week, amid renewed efforts for a consensus on ending the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine. But it's all at a phone-call stage, according to Yuri Ushakov, President Vladimir Putin's foreign affairs adviser.

Details of one such call have leaked, as per news agencies Bloomberg and AP, and revealed the inner workings of Trump and his peace plan.

Kremlin officials said they have not seen a US peace proposal as such, though representatives of the United States, Russia and Ukraine held talks in Abu Dhabi earlier this week. "Contact is ongoing, including via telephone, but no one has yet sat down at a round t...