Russian general killed in car bomb as Trump envoy meets Putin in Moscow for Ukraine peace talks
- Hge News
- Apr 25
- 1 min read
Vladimir Putin is meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin, Russian media reports, citing spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Traffic was halted as a convoy of cars arrived in central Moscow earlier.
Witkoff's plane from Florida landed at Vnukovo International Airport in the Russian capital this morning on his fourth trip to Russia since the start of the year.
Putin is expected to continue Ukraine peace talks with Witkoff, who as our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg writes, is no traditional diplomat.
As divergent peace plans emerge, Donald Trump has said "Crimea will stay with Russia", in an interview with Time.
Yesterday, Trump said that he has "nothing to do with Crimea" after meeting Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Instead, he said the contentious issue was "given" to him by former US President Barack Obama.
As a reminder, Crimea is a southern peninsula of Ukraine that was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Ukraine's President Zelensky has repeatedly rejected the idea of recognising the region as Russian.
This week, Trump hit out at Zelensky, saying "if he wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven years ago?"
In the same interview, external the US president put blame on Kyiv for starting the war with Russia, saying: “I think what caused the war to start was when they started talking about joining Nato."
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