According to reports, a new round of Russia conversations in the United States began Friday with a discussion in person between President Vladimir Putin and an emissary of President Donald Trump.
The envoy of the Middle East of the United States, Steve Witkoff, flew from Fort Lauderdale in Florida to Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg on Friday, Russian state media said. Witkoff will have his third meeting in person with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, later today, reports Axios.
President Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Witkoff had landed in Russia on Friday morning. Witkoff has previously spoken with the perspective of constructive conversations with Russia, saying that in March it is possible to create an agreement “everyone can live”.
Last week, Witkoff received the Putin advisor and the Russian Sovereign Heritage Fund Administrator Kirill Dmitriev for conversations and with Putin in Moscow twice before, once in February for the exchange of prisoners of Marc Fogel, then again on March 13. For Russia Us conversations.
Today’s Putin meeting also follows the conversations about the United States in Istanbul yesterday. It was not said that Ukraine was on the agenda at all.
The meeting at the Consulate of Russia lasted six hours and focused on the necessary changes to allow both nations to operate complete embassies in the capitals of others, something that has not happened since the invasion of Ukraine and White Biden of Russia in Russia.
The United States Department of State praised the “constructive approach” of conversations. Russia’s negotiator, his newly appointed ambassador to Washington Alexander Darchiev, said the meeting “Tok’s place in a positive atmosphere and allowed us to move forward to resolve this task established by the presidents of the two countries.”
Leaving aside the happy diplomatic talk, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has made clear that he hopes that the murder in Ukraine, in which thousands are killed and mutilated every week, stop quickly. The fact that the conversations are coming and a perception of construction of Russia that drags it into a high fire has angry the president and led him to threaten more sanctions against Moscow.
As reported, President Trump said he had “angry” and “angry”, and was threatening what he calls “secondary tariffs”, punishments in third countries that do business with the objective, for example, buying their oil or gas.
The Russian Foreign Minister, a skeptical note also sounded on Friday, saying in Moscow that: “I think there is no reason to stop carrying with the expectations of the Russian-United States contacts. However, it is reasonable and essential Encourage tow
]