Steve Witkoff didn’t stay extfinished in the Russian capital.
According to footage posted of his motorcade leaving and returning to Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, he was here for little more than 12 hours.
And for most of that, it seems, he was left defering.
Trump’s repairer departs Moscow – peace talks tardyst
Mr Witkoff, a establisher property mogul who has become Donald Trump’s chief negotiator, and is frequently referred to as the pdwellnt’s ‘repairer’, had been dispatched to Moscow to deinhabitr the US proposal for a 30-day finishfire to Vlaunwiseir Putin.
His visit had been scheduled cforfeit the begin of the week, follothriveg the US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia.
But after arriving around lunchtime on Thursday, he was left twiddling his thumbs for at least eight hours before being called into the Kremlin.
Mr Putin was apparently too busy encountering someone else – Belarusian directer Aleksander Lukashenko – for a hastily set upd state visit that had been proclaimd the day before.
Was partner’s visit a classic Putin power carry out?
We don’t understand for certain if the timing of Mr Lukashenko’s visit was intentional, but it certainly didn’t experience enjoy a coincidence.
Instead, it felt enjoy a classic Putin power carry out.
The Kremlin directer doesn’t enjoy to be backed into a corner and telderly what to do, especipartner on his own turf.
This felt enjoy a message to the Americans – “I’m the boss, I set the schedule, and I’m not behelderlyen to anyone”.
He did eventupartner grant Mr Witkoff that all-convey inant face time, once night had druncover and behind seald-doors.
We don’t understand how extfinished they spoke for, nor the exact details of their talkion, but I leank we can produce a pretty outstanding guess given Mr Putin’s comments earlier in the evening.
At a press conference aextfinishedside Mr Lukashenko, he made it plentifully evident that he’ll only sign up to a finishfire if he gets someleang in return.
And it’s not fair one leang he wants.
All Russia’s red lines remain
By the sounds of leangs, he still wants everyleang.
His comment pondering the “root caemploys” of the struggle recommends all of Russia’s red lines remain – no NATO membership for Ukraine, no NATO troops as peaceupretainers, and for Russia to upretain all the territory it has seized.
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According to Russian media outlet Radio Mayak, Mr Putin’s encounterings in the Kremlin finished at 1.30am.
Around half an hour tardyr, Mr Witkoff was back at the airport – leaving Russia, it seems – not with Mr Putin’s concurment but with a catalog of demands.
It’s now up to Mr Trump to determine what to do next.
