Putin, at Talks with Witkoff, Suggests He and Trump Could Meet in China
The envoy will press Putin on a revised peace framework that includes security guarantees and postwar economic plans, officials said.
- On Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin met US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Saint Petersburg, proposing a summit with President Donald Trump in China and announcing the release of 74-year-old US teacher Stephen Hubbard.
- President Trump recently signaled it is time for Ukraine to end the war or face a "very bad thing," while US-Ukraine ties have deteriorated following a diesel export deal with Russia announced earlier this month.
- Witkoff conducted "constructive" talks in Oslo on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, NATO, Finland, and Norway representatives; US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Witkoff would share these ideas with Russia to seek progress.
- Putin also offered to restore economic cooperation between Moscow and Washington, while US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth attributed recent Starlink connectivity issues in Kyiv to compliance with terms of service rather than deliberate hobbling.
- The Kremlin raised the possibility of three-way talks between Putin, Trump, and Chinese President Xi Jinping during an APEC summit in China next month, positioning the meeting as a potential venue for broader diplomatic progress.
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By Lauren Kent and Arina Porkhovnik, CNN The U.S. Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, has talks this Wednesday with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, with the aim of pushing forward proposals to end the war in Ukraine and open the way for broader negotiations.The talks began this Wednesday for the
U.S. ambassador Witkoff is back with Putin. In his luggage: new Selenskyi proposals.
All the proposals brought by the American envoy Steve Witkoff to the meeting with Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg "will be examined by the president," but "very much depends, of course, on the Ukrainians, how willing they are to engage concretely for a s... (ANSA)
Steve Witkoff, the envoy of US President Donald Trump, arrived Wednesday morning in St. Petersburg for talks with Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, the day after talks with Volodymyr Zelensky marked by mutual progress, according to both sides.
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