Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump envoy to meet Putin after Kyiv welcomes ‘fine-tuned’ peace plan
Donald Trump says his proposal to end the war in Ukraine has been “fine-tuned” after talks in Geneva and he will now send his special envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss the plan with Vladimir Putin.
Trump has said he will only meet with Putin and Zelensky himself when the terms of a peace deal are “final”.
In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday evening, the US president said he was sending envoys to Moscow and Kyiv in a bid to iron out a “few remaining points of disagreement” between the warring countries.
Mr Trump said negotiators are getting “very close” to a deal, with reports suggesting Ukraine is ready to “move forward” with the peace framework proposed by the US.
Kyiv said that it supports the “essence” of a peace agreement after intense negotiations between US and Ukrainian officials in Geneva.
But a Ukrainian official said the most sensitive issues in the agreement would still need to be discussed by Trump and president Volodymyr Zelensky, after a US official claimed that Kyiv had accepted the terms of an agreement.
