{"id":1211,"date":"2025-08-06T05:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:50:22","slug":"trump-envoy-arrives-in-moscow-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/trump-envoy-arrives-in-moscow-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoy arrives in Moscow (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steve Witkoff is expected to discuss the settlement of the Ukraine conflict with senior Russian officials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, arrived in Moscow early on Wednesday morning. He is expected to discuss the settlement of the Ukraine conflict with senior Russian officials.<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff\u2019s plane landed at Vnukovo Airport, where he was welcomed by presidential investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who is also the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).<\/p>\n<p>The two were later seen strolling in Zaryadye Park in central Moscow near the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov earlier said that a face-to-face meeting between Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin could not be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff arrived in Moscow days after Trump threatened to impose sanctions on Russia unless significant progress is made in the settlement process. The US president signaled that the restrictions could include 100% tariffs and secondary sanctions targeting Russia\u2019s trade partners, particularly in the oil sector.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Russian Investigative Committee Chairman Aleksandr Bastrykin.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6891e2e720302703d91bcb8e.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/622505-kursk-incrusion-foreign-mercenaries\/\">Moscow lists countries whose citizens took part in Ukrainian incursion into Russia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since Trump\u2019s inauguration, Witkoff has held several rounds of negotiations with Russia. His last visit to the country took place in late April. The talks revolved around the Ukraine conflict, US-Russia prisoner swaps, and bilateral ties.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Ukrainian media reported that Witkoff\u2019s visit to Moscow would coincide with talks between US Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg and officials in Kiev.<\/p>\n<p>US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker has expressed hope that the visit would pave the way for <em>\u201ca breakthrough\u201d<\/em> in negotiations over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>As Trump has repeatedly pushed Russia and Ukraine to work out a peace deal, the countries held three rounds of direct talks in Istanbul in May, June, and late July. While the sides have failed to reach a breakthrough, they agreed to several major prisoner swaps.<\/p>\n<p>Russia insists that a sustainable peace deal must include Ukraine\u2019s commitment to stay out of NATO, demilitarization, and the recognition of the new territorial reality on the ground. Kiev has rejected the terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Witkoff is expected to discuss the settlement of the Ukraine conflict with senior Russian officials US President Donald Trump\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}