Putin will receive Witkoff in Moscow in the first half of next week – Peskov

Dmytro Peskov, photo: Getty Images

Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to meet in Mostva with the US President’s special envoy Steve Witkoff in the first half of next week.

Source: Press Secretary of the Russian Federation Governor Dmytro Peskov, pro-Kremlin publication “RIA Novosti”

Peskov’s direct speech: “Putin will receive Witkoff in the first half of next week. We will announce the day in due course.”

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Details: Earlier, Putin’s aide Yuriy Ushakov announced that a preliminary agreement had been reached on Witkoff’s visit to Moscow. According to him, in addition to the special envoy, representatives of the American administration will also arrive in Russia.

Prehistory:

• Earlier, Trump stated that seconded Steve Witkoff to Moscow to finalize the “peace plan”, in which, according to him, only several controversial points.
• The Bloomberg agency published the transcript of the telephone conversation during which the special envoy of the US President Steve Witkoff gave advice to Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov on how Russia should better present its proposals for a “peace agreement” to Donald Trump.
• From another conversation between Ushakov and Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev, it follows that the so-called “peace plan” of 28 points was prepared by Putin’s aidesand Witkoff had to present it as his own work.
• November 25 Trump statedwho instructed Steve Witkoff and Dan Driscoll to finalize the terms of the draft “peace agreement” with the Russian Federation and Ukraine, for which Witkoff will go to Moscow, and in the event of entering the final stage of its preparation, Trump will meet with Putin and Zelensky.
• According to Trump, the biggest concession on the part of Russia, it is that it will agree to stop hostilities and will not seize new territories.
• The USA and Ukraine have different visions three points of the “peace agreement” – including for Ukraine to withdraw without a fight from the unoccupied part of the Donetsk region.

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