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Steve Witkoff White House was on Friday in Russia to meet with the Russian President Vladimir Putin After peace negotiations with Ukraine, he has given up in recent weeks, “frustrating” President Donald Trump.
“This is another step in the negotiating process to the dedication fire,” said the print secretary of the White House of Caroline Leavitt about the meeting. “I think the president was quite clear that both sides of this conflict was constantly frustrated and wants to see that fight, and he wants the war to end.”
Russian media aired pictures of Putin and Witkoff meetings at the St. Petersburg Presidential Library.
Leavitt said they “had an influence” now over Ukraine And Russia to press them to agree to peace.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, to the right, is holding on to the special envoy of President Donald Trump Steve Witkoff during a meeting at Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Sputnik/Gavriil Grigor’s/pool)
“We believe we have an impact on negotiating agreement … and we will use that influence. And the president is determined to see it,” Leavitt said.
Trump demanded that both sides agree to the immediate 30-day truce while reached a longer peace agreement. Ukraine agreed to it, until Russia did not. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Ukraine was established Two Chinese Fighting on behalf of Russia within its borders, a development that would suggest Russia receives direct assistance of labor and from North Korea and China.
Zelenskyy said that at least 155 Chinese citizens were fighting for Russia for accusing Putin of “extending war” – a claim that Kremlin rejected on Thursday, stating that China occupied a “balanced position” in war and that “Zelenskyy is wrong”. Fox News Digital addressed the Russian Ministry of Defense for further comment.
On the eve of the Witkoff meeting with Russian officials, Trump increased the pressure on Putin, writing about the truth of Social: “Russia has to move. Too many people die, thousands a week, in a terrible and meaningless war – a war that never happened, and it wouldn’t happen, if I were the president !!!”
Trump said on March 31 that he was “angry” with a Russian leader and threatened to put “secondary tariffs” in Russian oil exports, his financial life for war efforts. This could mean sanctioning countries buying Russian oil or shooting at their “shadow of the fleet” of tankers who disguise oil oil oils around the world.
Trump has previously broadcast complaints on Zelenskyy, calling him a “dictator without choice”. The white house public meeting broke out last month near the match where Zelenskyy abruptly left the premises.
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Witkoff talks to Kirill Dmitry, head of the Russian Fund for Direct Investment and Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries, in St. Petersburg. (Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/pool via Reuters)
Ukraine also agreed to the unconditional truce and more customary sea trucks, but Russia set a fresh circle of requests, including the abolition of some sanctions.
“We are making progress. We hope that we will approach the agreement between Russia and Ukraine relatively to stop the fights,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting on Thursday.
The US and Russia have exchanged a prisoner exchange agreement, which is a US in the United States on Friday on Friday on Friday. At the beginning of the war in 2022, Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in prison for donating $ 51 Ukrainian charity organization.
On Thursday, they met in Istanbul in Istanbul to talk about opening operations at embassies.
A meeting in St. Petersburg was Witkoff’s third meeting with Putin this year. (Sputnik/Gavril Grigorov/pool via Reuters)
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The gathering of St. Petersburg is Witkoff’s third meeting with Putin this year. He will go to Oman over the weekend to negotiate with Iran in nuclear conversations.
On the eve of the meeting on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “there is no need to expect a breakthrough” and “the process of normalizing relationships is ongoing.”
Reuters contributed to this report.
