WASHINGTON — President Trump’s particular envoy Steve Witkoff revealed plans Thursday for a summit assembly subsequent week with Ukrainian officers in Saudi Arabia — saying the events would focus on a doable cease-fire with Russia.
“We’re now in discussions to coordinate a meeting with the Ukrainians … It will be [in] Saudi Arabia. And I think the idea is to get down a framework for a peace agreement and an initial cease-fire as well,” Witkoff informed reporters on the White Home driveway.
The assembly will try to revive US-Ukrainian dialogue after the Trump administration moved to halt the stream of weapons and intelligence to Kyiv in response to an explosive Oval Workplace assembly Friday that includes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky mentioned at that assembly that he opposed a short lived cease-fire, fueling Trump’s rage.
“We can’t just speak about cease-fire and speak and speak. It will not work,” Zelensky mentioned at that assembly.
Trump informed him: “Look, if you could get a cease-fire right now, I tell you you’d take it, so the bullets stop flying and your men stop getting killed.”
