(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday met the U.S. envoy for the war in Ukraine Keith Kellogg, the RBC-Ukraine outlet reported, but their following joint news conference was cancelled at the U.S.'s request, Zelenskiy's office said.

U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, arrived in Kyiv for meetings with officials saying he was there to "listen," a day after Ukraine was left out of pivotal U.S.-Russia talks.

U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg met in Kyiv Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but there was no immediate word on whether they had eased U.S.-Ukrainian relations after U.S. President Donald Trump and Zelenskyy traded barbs this week over Russia’s three-year war against Ukraine.