US envoy Witkoff arrives in St Petersburg for Putin talks on Ukraine
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Witkoff meets Putin after positive talks with Zelenskyy; US resumes intelligence sharing.
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in St Petersburg on Wednesday to meet President Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine war, a day after holding talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Norway. [1] [2]
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Oslo talks “positive” and said Witkoff would share the results with Putin; Zelenskyy said the US had restored “very, very important” intelligence sharing. [1] [2]
Russia and Ukraine traded long-range attacks: one person was killed and two wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike in Russia’s Bryansk region, while two people died in a Russian attack on a Kyiv apartment building. [1]
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