President Donald Trump’s trusted foreign envoy Steve Witkoff is due in Moscow on Wednesday after the Kremlin requested a meeting with him in a last-ditch effort to avoid the punishing new sanctions Trump has threatened to impose this week,

The Kremlin warned Monday against “nuclear rhetoric” after President Trump repositioned two nuclear submarines because of what he called “foolish and inflammatory statements” by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.

President Donald Trump is escalating tensions with Russia by deploying two U.S. nuclear submarines to the region ahead of a Friday ceasefire deadline for Ukraine. -The move was a response to inflammatory rhetoric from Russian official Dmitry Medvedev,