US envoy Steve Witkoff said Saturday, January 31, that he had held constructive talks with a Russian envoy in Florida as part of the US drive to end the war in Ukraine.
The meeting came just a day before Ukrainian and Russian negotiators were scheduled to meet in Abu Dhabi to discuss a US-backed plan to end the nearly four-year Ukraine war.
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"Today in Florida, the Russian Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev held productive and constructive meetings as part of the U.S. mediation effort toward advancing a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict," Witkoff posted on X.
