Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Thursday, the Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday.
Amid reports of “highly constructive” two-hour-long negotiations between Russian Special Envoy on Ukraine Kirill Dmitriyev in Davos with Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jarred Kushner on Tuesday, the US envoy is heading for Moscow to meet President Putin.
“Yes, we expect such a meeting tomorrow; it’s on the president’s schedule,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by the state-run TASS news agency.
The Kremlin said last week it was preparing to welcome Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow for peace talks on Ukraine, but that no dates had been set.
Asked if Putin was joining Trump’s Board of Peace, Witkoff said “I think so,” and reiterated that an invitation to do so had been extended to Putin.
Ukraine’s top negotiator Rustem Umerov said last week that talks with U.S. officials on a resolution of the nearly four-year-old war with Russia would continue at the World Economic Forum this week in the Swiss resort of Davos.
