Trump's special -sentenced Witkoff showed several times that he is impressed by Putin. He does not think the Kremlin boss is a “bad guy,” he said – and indicated a meeting of the presidents.
The US specialist Steve Witkoff has already traveled to Moscow in the past few weeks to talk to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin about the Russian attack war against Ukraine. Already after the first meeting, he showed that he was taken with the Russian president.
A friendship with Putin was created, said Wittkoff at the time. Now he found friendly words again for the Russian president. He doesn't think Putin is a “bad guy,” said Witkoff in an interview by the ultra -right moderator Tucker Carlson. The war “and all the ingredients that led to it,” he described as a “complicated situation”.
Wittkoff: Putin prayed for Trump
Wittkoff assumes a personal meeting between Putin and US President Donald Trump in the coming months. Putin knew that it was currently politically difficult for Trump to come to Russia, the special envoy said in an interview with Carlson. “I think it was very generous from him to receive me.”
The 68-year-old said. A conflict with a large nuclear power can only be settled with conversations. Putin also told him that after the assassination attempt on Trump last summer he prayed for the Republican, Witkoff continued. “He prayed for his friend.”
Russia hopes for “progress”
With a view of the negotiations on the end of the war, Witkoff said: “We want the Russians to be in a way satisfied. We want the Ukrainians to be satisfied in a way. We are talking to the Europeans.” In the end, there should be an agreement “with which everyone can live,” said Witkoff. “The goal is a 30-day ceasefire in which we talk about permanent ceasefire. We are not far from that.”
On Monday, US negotiators in Saudi Arabia want to have separate conversations with delegations from Kiev and Moscow over a ceasefire in Ukraine. According to his chief negotiator Grigori Karasin, Russia hopes for “at least a little progress”.
Together with his colleague, a top representative of the Russian domestic secret service FSB, he will approach the talks with a “combative and constructive” mood, Karasin told the TV station Swesda. They wanted to enter “at least one of the topics” for the solution.
