The American envoy Steve Witkoff organized a three -hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, confirmed the White House official and described the discussions as positive. Despite the encouraging tone, Trump’s administration is still ready to move forward with a new round of secondary sanctions on Russia this Friday.
“The Russians are eager to continue working with the United States. The secondary sanctions are expected to be introduced on Friday,” the official said, signaling that diplomatic engagement would not slow down the repressive measures in Washington.
The White House did not offer further details of the content of Witkoff-Putin interviews, but said that the visit was part of a wider effort to engage in “strategic diplomacy” while maintaining pressure on the Kremlin.
Focus on missions: a breakthrough of Ukraine
Witkoff’s journey to Moscow was aimed at exploring potential diplomatic breakthroughs in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The war, now entering its fourth year, has begun Russian invasion in full scale in February 2022 and has since triggered a cascade of international sanctions and growing geopolitical tensions.
Trump Hails ‘highly productive’ interviews
US President Donald Trump announced that his special envoy Steve Witkoff organized a “highly productive” meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, aimed at breaking blocking in the current war in Ukraine.
In Social Trump’s Trump, my special envoy, Steve Witkoff just had a highly productive meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. There has been a lot of progress! Then I updated some of our European allies.
Trump retained a strong attitude towards the conflict, threatened further sanctions against Moscow, unless specific steps to end the war in Ukraine were taken.
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