The fact that Trump wants to meet next week with Putin, and after that with him and Zelensky, the media previously reported against the backdrop of the visit of the special representative of the American leader Steve Witkoff to Moscow.
“We have not yet decided where exactly, but today we had very good negotiations with President Putin,” the head of the White House said.
In general, Trump appreciated the meeting of Witkoff and Putin positively, but emphasized that he would not call the result a “breakthrough”, because they worked on this for a long time.
One of the presented journalists asked Trump if he did not think that Putin could deceive him.
“I’ll tell you in a few weeks, perhaps before,” he answered.
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August 6 in Moscow took place meeting Putin and Witkoff.
The special representative of Putin for investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, based on the results of Vitcoff's visit to Moscow on August 6, announced the continuation of a “constructive dialogue” between the United States and Russia. According to the assistant to the illegitimate president of the Russian Federation Yuri Ushakov, Moscow “handed over some signals” on the war in Ukraine and “received the appropriate signals” from Washington. He added that the situation will become clearer when Vitcoff can report to Trump's conversation.
The head of the White House in a message at Truth Social named Vitcoff's meeting with Putin productive and announced “significant progress”.
After that, Zelensky held a telephone conversation with Trump. European leaders also participated in it. According to the head of the Ukrainian state, Russia, it seems, is now more configured to cease.
