US President Donald Trump said Friday that he was sending envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Moscow and Kyiv with a proposal to end the four-year-old Ukraine war.
“I sent Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, two great negotiators. They’ve done a great job, and we sent them over to see whether or not we can get something done. “I speak to him. I know him very well.
And there may be a good chance that we’ll do it,” he said. The US leader blamed the war that began with Russia invading Ukraine in February 2022 on a “personality problem” between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky earlier said he had proposed observing a ceasefire with Russia while the US envoys visit Moscow and Kyiv. “There will be no airstrikes on our part, and Russia must reciprocally ensure a ceasefire — without its own airstrikes — for the duration needed to conduct these talks,” Zelensky said in his evening address. Putin’s not looking to attack NATO territory,” Trump said in the Oval Office when an AFP reporter asked him about the German allegation.
