US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said in an interview with Fox News that he expects to meet with representatives from Ukraine in New York “this week.”
US special envoy for peace missions Steve Witkoff said Washington is “hopeful” that by the end of 2025, or “a bit sooner” Ukraine and Russia may get closer to a peace deal.
“We are hopeful that by the end of this year, and maybe quite a bit sooner, we actually can find the ingredients to get to that peace deal,” he said, speaking on Fox News “Special Report with Bret Baier” show on Tuesday.
Witkoff also said he will meet with Ukrainian representatives in New York “this week.”
“I’m meeting with the Ukrainians this week. So I will be meeting with them this week in New York, and that’s a big signal. We talk to the Russians every day. I think we may end up seeing a bilateral meeting,” Witkoff said.
Witkoff believes there might be a bilateral meeting between Russia and Ukraine, with US President Donald Trump also sitting in on the talks.
Witkoff said Russian President Vladimir Putin put “a peace proposal on the table,” although the American also acknowledged Ukraine’s position that it cannot give up land and agree to vague security guarantees.
When asked: “Should Ukraine be forced to give up land Russian troops have not yet captured?” Witkoff reiterated the president’s comments that Ukrainians should decide.
“Well, the president said the only ones who can make that decision are the Ukrainians. This is President Zelensky’s call. And I think they have indicated it’s a more complicated decision than just giving up land. They need to understand what security guarantees are, and they are entitled to understand these things. They have to make sure this can never happen again,” Witkoff replied.
He called the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine as talks between “two tough sides” and repeated that no one has done more to “narrow the issues” and progress than Trump.
At the same time, Witkoff said that it is for the US president to decide whether to impose stronger measures against Russia to bring it back to the negotiation table.
Previously, Reuters reported Russia and the United States quietly discussed possible energy deals while negotiating a truce in Ukraine.
Five people familiar with the talks told Reuters that discussions centered on ExxonMobil’s potential return to the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia’s Far East and the sale of American equipment for Russian liquefied natural gas ventures, including the Arctic LNG 2 megaproject.
The talks took place during Witkoff’s early August visit to Moscow, where he met with Putin.
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“We are hopeful that by the end of this year, and maybe quite a bit sooner, we actually can find the ingredients to get to that peace deal,”
The ingredients have been on Trump’s desk for months, they are called sanctions. Treating putler like some kind of king will not stop this war. Neither will giving putler another two weeks every month.
“He called the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine as talks between “two tough sides” and repeated that no one has done more to “narrow the issues” and progress than Trump.”
Does this clown really believe the BS he is spewing? This admin is like watching a clown show without the laughs. 7 months in from TACO bragging he will stop the war in 24 hours, and all we have seen is the US giving russia time to occupy more land and murder more civilians.
Witless is :
a) russian
b) a creep who leaves a trail of slime everywhere he goes
c) has no business negotiating anything to do with Ukraine
d) is a putlerist
e) pigshit thick : he thinks putler is “a nice guy”
Appointing Witless is the equivalent of hiring Yasser Arafat to negotiate on behalf of Israel.
Any “deal” that is acceptable to putler will result in the death of Ukraine.
Sir Bill Browder on this topic :
At the end of the year, taco will give the war criminal another 2 week moratorium.