After Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff had a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, the US president said on Saturday that discussions aimed at ending the war in Ukraine are in order, but the moment when “you have to stop talking, only acting”.
“Everything is going very well,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Pieskow. He added that, however, you cannot “expect immediate results”.
The USA is still negotiating with Russia
Pieskov, asked if Putin's meeting with Trump is getting closer, Pieskov said that both powers “walk very patiently this way together”, but an attempt to restore relations requires serious and tedious work.
Witkoff met Putin on Friday for the third time. The Kremlin issued only a short message after the conversation, in which it was stated that the talks concerned “aspects of regulating the Ukrainian issue”.
On Saturday, the administration of Donald Trump announced the maintenance of a state of emergency, which was introduced by Joe Biden's team in connection with the harmful activities of the government in Moscow. This means an extension by a year of applicable sanctions aimed at the Russian Federation.
