Putin Meets With Trump Envoy Witkoff
April 25, 2025
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as posted by the channelMara Rudman discusses the implications of Friday's meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and the status of the administration's many other negotiations, including with Iran.
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow as Washington intensifies its push for a deal to end the war on Ukraine.
The Kremlin published a short video on Telegram of Steve Witkoff greeting the Russian leader Friday before sitting down at a table with him. Putin’s foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov and envoy for economic relations Kirill Dmitriev were also present.
Ushakov told reporters in Moscow that the three-hour conversation was “constructive” and brought the US and Russian positions closer together on multiple issues, including Ukraine. Putin and Witkoff discussed the possibility of resuming direct talks between Russia and Ukraine, he said.
Witkoff was set to raise with Putin a US demand that Ukraine have the right to develop its own army and defense industry as part of any peace agreement, Bloomberg News reported earlier.
Trump, who’s rushing to end the war as he approaches the first 100 days of his presidency, ramped up pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday to accept a peace deal that critics fear will favor Moscow. Witkoff’s meeting with Putin was his fourth as the US works to achieve a ceasefire.
Agreeing to let Kyiv maintain its armed forces, as demanded by Ukraine and its European allies, would mean Putin would have to give up on his demand for the “demilitarization” of the country, one of his main stated aims in the war that’s now in its fourth year.
Other US proposals for a deal have tilted far more in Moscow’s favor, including Washington’s recognition of Russia’s 2014 occupation of Crimea and freezing the war largely along existing battle lines that would leave Putin in control of swaths of eastern and southern Ukraine, Bloomberg earlier reported. Kyiv would also be required to abandon its goal of joining the NATO defense alliance.
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