First the handshake, with a lot of force… then the talks that lasted 4 hours. Russian President Vladimir Putin received Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of his American counterpart Donald Trump, in St. Petersburg.
The Kremlin said the meeting lasted more than four hours and focused on “aspects of a solution for Ukraine.” The talks, Witkoff’s third with Putin this year, were described by special envoy Kirill Dmitriev as “productive.”
Trump's special envoy left St. Petersburg after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Witkoff, Reuters reports, citing US sources, the "fastest way" to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine would be "to support a strategy that would give Russia ownership of four eastern regions of Ukraine that Moscow has tried to annex by 2022." Meanwhile, Trump has previously expressed frustration with Putin about the state of the talks.
On Friday, he wrote on social media: “Russia must move. Too many people are dying, thousands a week, in a terrible and senseless war.” The talks come after Trump’s envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, dismissed ideas or suggestions that the country could be divided. The Times reports that Kellogg has proposed sending British and French troops to set up control zones in western Ukraine as part of a security guarantee force. Russia’s military, the US envoy suggested, could remain in the occupied eastern territory. “It could look almost like Berlin after World War II,” he said. (A2 Televizion)
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