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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Despite no immediate sign of a breakthrough with Moscow after special envoy Steve Witkoff’s crunch ceasefire talks, there is at least hope that the US president – increasingly resentful about the Kremlin rebuffing his overtures – could now come full circle and support Ukraine again

Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin met for about three hours in a last-minute bid to seek a breakthrough in the three-and-a-half-year war

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COMMENT: Steve Witkoff – the president’s international diplomatic Mr Fixit – has failed to bring peace to the Middle East or deliver on Trump’s boast that he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

Summit with Russian leader would follow ‘great progress’ made by special envoy Steve Witkoff during Moscow visit

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Watch as US envoy Steve Witkoff meets with Vladimir Putin in Moscow just days ahead of a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire deadline.

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for urgent talks with the Russian leadership, two days before President Donald Trump‘s Friday deadline for Russia to agree to peace or face severe new sanctions targeting global oil trade.

US president says ‘great progress was made’ as White House official says secondary sanctions on Russia still expected to be implemented on Friday