The Kremlin confirmed Wednesday that US envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Moscow next week to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Washington presses negotiations on a plan to end the Ukraine conflict.
“A preliminary agreement has been reached on (Witkoff’s) visit to Moscow next week,” Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said on Russian TV.
Several other officials from President Donald Trump’s administration will accompany Witkoff, Ushakov said.
Trump first announced the trip Tuesday, saying Witkoff would meet with Putin in Moscow and may be joined by Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law.
The confirmation comes after news agency Bloomberg reported that Witkoff had coached Ushakov on how Putin should talk to Trump about a potential plan to end the conflict in Ukraine.
“I speak fairly often with Witkoff, but the content of those conversations is confidential,” Ushakov said in his comments to Russian TV.
He said such reports risked damaging US-Russian ties, which “are being built, with difficulty”, notably through phone calls.
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