Ukraine talks: US envoy meets Vladimir Putin in Russia

France 24 Wednesday 21 October 2026, 11:04 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Ukraine talks: US envoy meets Vladimir Putin in Russia Europe Issued on: Modified: Share US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Wednesday about Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as US President Donald Trump pushes Kyiv to make a deal that stops the fighting. The day before, the American official had met with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in Oslo, Norway. Details by FRANCE 24 international affairs editor Philip Turle.

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