Trump hails ‘great progress’ after Witkoff meets Putin for talks on Ukraine – NYT: Trump-Putin meeting next week

Trump’s message was “My special envoy, Steve Witkoff, just had a highly productive meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Great progress was made! Afterwards, I updated some of our European allies. Everyone agrees this war must come to a close, and we will work towards that in the days and weeks to come.” https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114982898525988419

The Guardian commented that “Trump gave no further details of what was discussed, and some analysts will be wary of reading too much into the comments, after multiple previous claims by Trump that Putin was ready to negotiate resulted in little progress”.

But the NYT reports that there will be a personal meeting between Trump and Putin next week and eventually a three party meeting with Selensky. NYT – Trump Tells European Leaders He Intends to Meet With Putin and Zelensky.

The Kremlin did not yet respond.

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