Trump Envoy Can't Name a Single Concession Russia Will Make in Peace Deal [View all]

Source: The Daily Beast

Trump Envoy Can’t Name a Single Concession Russia Will Make in Peace Deal

Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, said a deal over Ukraine’s raw earth minerals could be signed this week.

Maurício Alencar
Freelance Reporter

Updated Feb. 23 2025 4:29PM EST
Published Feb. 23 2025 10:47AM EST

CNN host Jake Tapper exposed President Trump’s negotiation strategy in the war in Ukraine as a top foreign affairs envoy struggled to point out one concession Russia would make in a peace deal.

In an interview on State of the Union on Sunday, Tapper grilled Steve Witkoff, the Middle East envoy who claimed that he had developed a “friendship” with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week after meeting in Moscow, on the different demands Trump had made on Ukraine’s president versus those made on Russia.

“President Trump has been putting a lot of pressure on Ukrainian President Zelensky, as you just noted, and laying out the concessions Ukraine will have to make to end the war,” Tapper pointed out. “What concessions will Russia have?”

But Witkoff answered in vague terms.

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