US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff plans to hold a video conference with senior officials from Ukraine, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom on Thursday, August 7, to to inform them about his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discuss further actions, including a possible summit between Trump and Putin, writes AXIOS , citing two of his sources.

What is known about the meeting between Witkoff and Putin?

In the Kremlin took place This is the fifth meeting this year between US President's Special Envoy Stephen Witkoff and Vladimir Putin. This time the conversation lasted about three hours.

President of the United States Donald Trump said his special envoy had a productive meeting with the Kremlin dictator and added that"significant progress" had been made.

The White House also stated that he had informed some of our European allies about the results of the meeting and once again added that everyone agrees that the war in Ukraine must end.

As UNIAN previously reported, Mykhailo Podoliak, advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, believes that Witkoff's visit to Moscow will not fundamentally change anything in the Russian-Ukrainian war, since Russia cannot offer us acceptable solutions. Podoliak emphasized that Putin has not given up his claims on Ukraine and intends to continue the aggression. The advisor to the head of the OP also expressed the opinion that the Kremlin wants to achieve that the volume of Western aid to Ukraine is reduced in the near future.

We also wrote that Dmytro Lytvyn, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, commented on an article by the Polish publication Onet about the alleged"US advantageous offer" for Russia regarding the ceasefire. According to him, during the conversation between Vitkoff and Ushakov, nothing of the kind was said, the US special envoy said other things.