The US President’s special envoy Steve Witkoff does “not regard” Vladimir Putin “as a bad guy” and said that he “liked” the Russian leader.
On Monday a Russian delegation will meet with the US in Saudi Arabia for further ceasefire talks, even though Putin is still bombing Ukraine daily.
During an interview with Tucker Carlson Witkoff said, “I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy. He’s super smart.”
Witkoff also said described Sir Keir Starmer’s plan for European troops to be peacekeepers in Ukraine is “a posture and pose.”
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On Wednesday Putin agreed to a limited ceasefire, in principle following a phone call with Donald Trump, but since then Russia has continued drone and missile attacks all over Ukraine every day killing many innocent civilians.
Witkoff told Carlson in the interview that Starmer’s idea for a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine is “simplistic” and leaders in Europe could be thinking “we have all got to be like Winston Churchill.”
He added, “I think it’s a combination of a posture and a pose and a combination of also being simplistic.
“There is this sort of notion that we have all got to be like Winston Churchill. Russians are going to march across Europe. That is preposterous by the way. We have something called NATO that we did not have in World War Two.”
Last week more than 1,580 guided aerial bombs, 15 different types of missiles and nearly 1,100 attack drones were fired by Russian forces on Ukraine.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement, “This week alone, more than 1,580 guided aerial bombs, almost 1,100 strike drones and 15 missiles of various types were used against our people.
“New solutions are needed, with new pressure on Moscow to stop both these strikes and this war.”
