Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff lately met with Russian officers about persisted peace negotiations, and he mentioned the assembly used to be “positive.”
“This morning, I met with President Putin,” Witkoff mentioned Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I think the meeting was somewhere between three and four hours. It was positive.”
Witkoff mentioned the dialog used to be a “solution based discussion” with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The assembly comes after weeks of makes an attempt from the U.S. to finish the battle between Russia and Ukraine.
U.S. officers met with Russian associates, necessarily sidelining Ukraine and inflicting global worry. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Trump in Washington, D.C., to assist the placement, however the assembly led to shouting between the leaders.
Ukraine and Zelensky have sought to fix family members with the U.S. after Trump paused assist for the war-torn nation.
Officers have pressed forward with peace talks, together with Witkoff’s assembly.
“The two sides are today a lot closer,” he mentioned.
“We had some really positive results coming out of [the] Saudi Arabia discussions led by our national security adviser Mike Waltz and our Secretary of State Marco Rubio,” Witkoff added, pointing to the hot U.S.-Ukraine assembly.
Witkoff mentioned that assembly used to be sure and that the dialogue with Putin used to be as “equally positive.”
“The two sides we have narrowed the differences between them and now we’re sitting at the table,” he mentioned.
