Trump says US envoy Witkoff to travel to Russia ‘next week’

Witkoff volition sermon Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine arsenic Trump says again that helium wants a ‘deal wherever radical halt getting killed’.

United States President Donald Trump said his peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff volition sojourn Russia adjacent week to proceed talks connected the warfare successful Ukraine.

Speaking to reporters connected Sunday, Trump said Witkoff would visit, “I deliberation adjacent week, Wednesday oregon Thursday.”

Responding to questions from reporters connected what Russia could bash to debar looming sanctions, the US president replied: “Yeah, get a woody wherever radical halt getting killed.”

Trump has threatened to enforce “very terrible tariffs” connected Russia if it fails to scope a ceasefire woody with Ukraine soon.

Trump besides said that two atomic submarines helium deployed pursuing an online enactment with erstwhile Russian President Dmitry Medvedev were present “in the region.”

Trump has not said whether helium meant nuclear-powered oregon nuclear-armed submarines. He besides did not elaborate connected the nonstop deployment locations, which are kept concealed by the US military.

Trump’s latest comments travel aft helium precocious described Russia’s actions successful its warfare connected Ukraine arsenic “disgusting“, aft a Russian onslaught connected an flat artifact successful Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, killed 31 people connected Thursday.

The onslaught capped disconnected a period of a record 6,297 Russian long-range drone attacks connected Ukraine, a 14-fold summation from July 2024.

Ukraine is looking guardant to receiving a US-made Patriot surface-to-air rocket system, which Trump has promised volition beryllium delivered, albeit with funding from Ukraine’s European allies, not the Trump administration.

Ukraine has besides continued to motorboat its ain attacks connected Russia, with its astir caller attacks on Sunday sidesplitting 3 radical crossed the state and causing a large occurrence astatine an lipid refinery.

A Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Monday greeting sparked a occurrence astatine a railway presumption successful Russia’s Volgograd region, the determination medication said connected Telegram.

As warring has continued, Russian and Ukrainian officials person held respective meetings successful caller months successful Istanbul, Turkiye.

The latest gathering secured an statement to speech 1,200 prisoners, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced connected Sunday.

Russia has yet to comment.

Witkoff, a existent property magnate and Trump play partner, has already met with Russian President Vladimir Putin aggregate times successful Moscow successful his relation arsenic a White House peculiar envoy.

As a peculiar envoy to the Middle East, helium is besides Trump’s typical successful negotiations betwixt Israel and Hamas, which saw him sojourn Tel Aviv, Israel, connected Saturday, wherever helium met with the families of captives held successful Gaza.

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