“I think the government is very optimistic,” said Karoline Leavitt, adding that President Donald Trump and his team “worked very hard on that issue and sincerely want that war to end.”
“On Sunday, they had very productive talks with the Ukrainians in Florida, and now special envoy Witkoff is on his way to Russia,” the spokeswoman announced.
The Kremlin announced that Witkoff, who has already visited the Russian capital several times this year, will meet with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
The trip of Trump’s envoy takes place at a time of strong pressure on Kiev to accept the American plan for the end of the war, writes the France Presse agency.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron spoke with Trump’s envoy and Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov in Paris, following US-Ukrainian talks in Florida on Sunday.
Both sides rated the talks as “productive”, but US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that “there is still work to be done”.
(Vijesti.ba)
