Witkoff to brief Kyiv, America's NATO allies about meeting with Putin — Axios

Special US Envoy Steve Witkoff will today inform representatives of Ukraine and some of Washington's NATO allies about his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Report informs referring to Axios.

According to its sources, Witkoff will hold remote consultations with officials from the UK, Germany, Italy, Ukraine, Finland and France "to brief them on his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discuss the path forward, including a possible Trump-Putin summit, according to two sources with direct knowledge."

The story says that Trump on Wednesday had a telephone conversation with the leaders of European states and with Volodymyr Zelenskyy "and told them about the possibility of a meeting between him and Putin, and a trilateral summit afterwards including Zelenskyy." According to the portal, "that call left confusion in Kyiv and other European capitals." The officials were uncertain "whether US policy was changing, or whether sanctions would still be announced on Friday as Trump had planned."

As noted in the story, Kyiv fears that Russia and the United States may reach agreements on a settlement "without Ukraine or the European powers having a say."