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Russian President Vladimir Putin met Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s particular envoy, within the Kremlin on Wednesday, as Washington presses the Kremlin to conform to a deal to cease preventing earlier than the US president’s Friday deadline or face new sanctions.
Earlier on Wednesday, Kirill Dmitriev, a senior Russian official with shut ties to Putin’s household, greeted him at Vnukovo airport, in line with Tass, the state newswire.
Quickly after, state media printed movies of the pair, flanked by safety employees, strolling by Zaryadye Park subsequent to the Kremlin.
The go to comes amid Trump’s rising frustration over the shortage of progress in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, together with his criticism of Moscow’s repeated drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian cities changing into more and more pointed.
As a part of Washington’s effort to rebuild ties with Moscow, Witkoff has visited Russia 4 occasions in latest months, holding talks with Putin on February 11, March 13 and April 11 and 25.
“We’re at all times happy to see Mr Witkoff in Moscow and to keep up a correspondence with him,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov informed reporters forward of the envoy’s go to. “We contemplate these interactions essential, substantive and really helpful.”
Putin has just lately dismissed US frustration over stalled negotiations, saying it was the results of unrealistic hopes.
“As for any disappointment on anybody’s half, all disappointment stems from extreme expectations, as is well-known,” he informed reporters on August 1 throughout an off-the-cuff assembly with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
