Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had discussed efforts to broker peace with Russia and was finalizing dates for the envoys' proposed visit to Ukraine, Reuters reported on Aug. 31. The call came as the United States welcomed Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov to the G20 finance meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, marking the first time the United States has invited a high-level Russian official to a multilateral event of this kind since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.