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Witkoff on Ukraine talks: 'Relatively short distance to a full ceasefire'

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19.03.2025

President Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, contends there's a "relatively short distance" to go before a full Russia-Ukraine ceasefire is reached.

“I think the devil’s in the details, we’ve got a team going to Saudi Arabia, led by our national security adviser [Mike Waltz] and our Secretary of State [Marco Rubio], and I think we’ve got to figure out those details,” Witkoff said during a Tuesday night appearance on Fox News, referencing the upcoming meeting between U.S. and Russian officials.

“The point is, up until recently, we really didn’t have consensus on these two aspects, the energy and infrastructure ceasefire and the Black Sea moratorium on firing,” the envoy told host Sean Hannity. “And today we got to that place, and I think it’s a relatively short distance to a full ceasefire from there.”

“I think both of those [terms] are now agreed to........

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