The special envoy of President Donald Trump of the United States, Steve Witkoff, has planned a visit to Moscow to meet the Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, has reportedly played a growing role in efforts to bring about an end to the three-year-old Ukraine war.
Trump has expressed a desire to meet Putin and, since taking office in January, has pursued an effort to reverse the icy relations with Russia of the previous Biden administration.
It could be recalled that Witkoff met Putin in Moscow last month and brought back American schoolteacher Marc Fogel, who had been sentenced to 14 years in a Russian prison after being detained for holding medically prescribed marijuana.
In the same vein, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a delegation to Saudi Arabia for talks on Tuesday with Ukrainian officials about the war.
It was gathered that US officials planned to use the meeting in part to determine whether Ukraine is willing to make material concessions to Russia to end the war.
