Trump’s envoy Witkoff meets Putin as ceasefire deadline looms
US ambassador Steve Witkoff and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump’s Moscow’s Ukrainian stalls to accept ceasefire on the last date came together in the Kremlin.
After Witkoff landed in Russia early on Wednesday, the Russian media report lasted three hours.
US President Russia may face heavy sanctions or See the secondary sanctions given to anyone who trades it If he doesn’t take steps to end the “terrible war” with Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia will only make serious movements to peace if it starts to be free. He welcomed the threat of more challenging sanctions and tariffs on the countries that bought Russian oil.
In the images shared by Russian exits, two men who met several times before, smiling in a gilded hall and shook hands.
Expectations were silenced for a settlement until Friday, and Russia continued large -scale air strikes in Ukraine despite Trump’s sanction threats.
Before he took office in January, Trump claimed that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day. He failed, and since then he was looking forward to the lack of concrete progress with his discourse of Russia’s hardening.
“We thought we had [the war] He settled many times, and then President Putin goes out and starts throwing rockets into a city like Kiev, and he kills many people in a nursing home or whatever. “He said.
Three and a half years after Moscow initiated the full mission of Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul, the war could not get closer to the war.
Moscow’s military and political prerequisite for peace is unacceptable for Kiev and Western partners. Kremlin also repeatedly rejected Kiev’s requests for a meeting between Zelensky and Putin.
Meanwhile, after a telephone conversation between Zelensky and Trump, the US administration approved additional 200 million dollars of military sales to Ukraine on Tuesday and discussed the production of defense cooperation and drone of both leaders.
Ukraine uses drones to hit Russia’s refineries and energy facilities, while Moscow focused on the cities of Ukraine.
The Kiev City Military Administration said that an attack on the city last week rose to 32 after death. Strike The most deadly in Kiev Since the beginning of the invasion.
Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday that the Russian attack on a holiday camp in the central region of Zaporizhzhia was two dead and 12 injured.
Zelensky said, “There is no military sense in this attack. Feeding people is just cruelty.” He said.
