The emissary of US President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, arrived this Wednesday, August 6 in Moscow on Wednesday, August 6 to meet Russian leaders, the TASS agency announced.
“Stephen Witkoff was received by President Kirill Dmitriev’s special representative,” wrote the Russian state agency, two days before the ultimatum exposed by President Trump for Russia to stop his offensive in Ukraine.
In the past, Russian president, Vladimir Putin, met Steve Witkoff several times in Moscow, but Donald Trump’s efforts to restore dialogue with Kremlin did not bear fruit.
The American leader gave last week, until next Friday, Russia to end his offensive in Ukraine, under a penalty of new un specified sanctions. According to the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, a new meeting between Vladimir Putin and Steve Witkoff, “is not excluded.”
Tensions between Moscow and Washington
The relations between Moscow and Washington have experienced a sudden tension of Donald Trump for several days for several days of two nuclear submarines, after an in line with former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev.
The head of state of the United States, who had begun his second term in early 2025 when he could stop the conflict in Ukraine in a few days, expresses his frustration increasingly openly with respect to Vladimir Putin.
For journalists who asked what the message of his emissary in Moscow would be and if there were a way for Russia to avoid sanctions, Trump had responded: “Yes, he concluded an agreement for people to stop being killed.” The US president had also threatened to inflict “secondary customs rights” to countries that continue to trafficking with Russia, such as China and India.
A HIGH FIRE IN CONDITIONS
Vladimir Putin, who has always rejected calls to a high temporary fire, said on Friday, August 1 that he wanted peace, but that his requirements to end the conflict launched in February 2022 remained unchanged.
Russia demands that Ukraine sell four partially occupied regions (Donetsk, Lougansk, Zaporijjia, Kherson), in addition to Crimea attached in 2014, and that renounces the deliveries of Western weapons and any membership in NATO.
Unacceptable conditions for kyiv, who wants the withdrawal of Russian troops and western security guarantees, including the search for weapons deliveries and the deployment of a European contingent.
Source: BFM TV
