The meeting of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with the special Supervisor of the US President in the Middle East, Steve Whitkoff, held in St. Petersburg, ended.
Putin’s conversation with Whitkoff continued in the presidential library for almost four and a half hours.
After protocol shooting, Putin and Whitkoff went to negotiations in a closed format. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Ukraine will be the topic for discussion. After the meeting, according to Peskov, a telephone conversation of Putin and US President Donald Trump is possible. About whether it took place until it is reported.
The representative of the White House Karolin Livitt said at a briefing that the visit of Whitkoff to Russia is another step towards the world.
This is the third meeting of Putin and Whitkoff since Trump entered the post of President of the United States.
As the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov previously said, the main theme of this meeting is various aspects of Ukrainian settlement.
“The painstaking work continues. Naturally, Whitkoff, being the official representative of President Trump, will bring something from the president for Putin, Putin will listen, there will be a conversation,” said Peskov.
He added that there are a lot of aspects of this settlement, “the substance is very complex.”
At the same time, Peskov emphasized: “This (meeting) is a very good opportunity for us through Whitkoff to convey, in fact, the main elements of Russia’s position, the concern of Russia, which will then become known to the President of Trump.”