 "Trump envoy heads to Moscow for fresh Ukraine peace talks with Putin")
US President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, will go to Moscow this week for a new round of discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the Ukraine conflict, the White House announced Tuesday.
Witkoff had already held three lengthy sessions with Putin to discuss the chances for an end to the Ukrainian conflict.
According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, President Donald Trump spoke with Witkoff earlier in the day and “they wanted everyone to know that the negotiations continue”; Witkoff was scheduled to visit Russia later this week.
According to her, Trump “wants to see peace, he wants this war to end” and has become irritated with both sides of the conflict.
Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yury Ushakov said earlier on Tuesday Witkoff would visit Moscow this week, according to Interfax.
The meeting comes as talks prepare to get under way in London on Wednesday regarding the war in Ukraine.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy General Keith Kellogg will attend those meetings, U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters at a separate briefing, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio no longer able to attend.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday said he would be happy to meet with Trump later this week when they both attend the funeral for Pope Francis.
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More ShortsZelenskyy, speaking to reporters in Kyiv, said Ukraine would be ready to hold talks with Russia in any format once a ceasefire is in place and the fighting between Kyiv and Moscow’s forces has stopped.
Putin, meanwhile, has offered to halt his invasion of Ukraine across the current front line as part of efforts to reach a peace deal with Trump, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Multiple sources say the U.S. last week had proposed recognizing Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea.
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