U.S. negotiators have told Ukraine that it must withdraw from the Donetsk region under any peace deal with Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/world/politics/us-ukraine-donetsk-peace-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #stevewitkoff #us #donaldtrump #jaredkushner
Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered to drop Ukraine's aspirations to join NATO during talks with U.S. envoys in Berlin on Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/world/politics/ukraine-nato-peace-talks-berlin/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #germany #us #donaldtrump #stevewitkoff #jaredkushner #friedrichmerz #nato
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff held productive talks with Ukraine's senior negotiator Rustem Umerov over the past two days, U.S. officials said on Friday, with further talks scheduled for Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/06/world/us-officials-ukraine-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #us #donaldtrump #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #stevewitkoff
The confusion still swirling in Washington over President Donald Trump's latest peace plan for Ukraine has made one thing clear: The U.S. president's unconventional, all-in approach to diplomacy carries big risks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/04/world/politics/trump-ukraine-peace-diplomacy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #us #donaldtrump #stevewitkoff
Vladimir Putin met Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner for talks on how to end the deadliest European conflict since WWII. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/03/world/politics/putin-witkoff-kushner-ukraine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #stevewitkoff #jaredkushner
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Timeline
Oct. 14 call. #SteveWitkoff speaks to
#YuriUshakov, discussed how #Putin should butter #Trump up (“man of peace”)
Oct. 16 Trump speaks with Putin for two and a half hours
Oct. 17 #Zelensky visits the White House is bullied relentlessly by Trump & #Vance.
Around Oct. 24-26 #Witkoff meets with #KirillDmitriev & #JaredKushner in Miami
Oct. 29 #Ushakov & #Dmitriev discuss Russian strategy in call
#PutinsPuppet #geopolitics #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #NATO #alliance #StandWithUkraine
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A leaked phone call transcript shows #US envoy #SteveWitkoff coached #Putin aide #YuriUshakov on how Russian leader should pitch #Trump on #Ukraine “peace” plan
Trump’s chief interlocutor with #Russia last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the Trump on a peace plan aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, acc/to a transcript of the call published by Bloomberg News Tuesday.
#PutinsPuppet
https://apnews.com/article/trump-witkoff-putin-ukraine-bloomberg-3844a3721d92dd9ae9681547a0814d88
U.S. and Ukrainian officials discussed a peace deal with Russia, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing optimism despite challenges in ending the more than 3-year-long war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/01/world/politics/rubio-florida-talks-ukraine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #marcorubio #stevewitkoff #jaredkushner #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #us #donaldtrump
Timeline
Oct. 14 call. #SteveWitkoff speaks to
#YuriUshakov, discussed how #Putin should butter #Trump up (“man of peace”)
Oct. 16 Trump speaks with Putin for two and a half hours
Oct. 17 #Zelensky visits the White House is bullied relentlessly by Trump & #Vance.
Around Oct. 24-26 #Witkoff meets with #KirillDmitriev & #JaredKushner in Miami
Oct. 29 #Ushakov & #Dmitriev discuss Russian strategy in call
#PutinsPuppet #geopolitics #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #NATO #alliance #StandWithUkraine
#Trump envoy #SteveWitkoff, acc/to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the news service, advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser #YuriUshakov that #Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal, say Russia had supported it & that he respects the president as a “man of peace”.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said acc/to the transcript.
#PutinsPuppet #geopolitics #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #NATO #alliance #StandWithUkraine
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between #SteveWitkoff, #Trump special envoy for peace missions, and #YuriUshakov, #Putin senior foreign-policy adviser.
The transcript was prepared after Bloomberg reviewed a recording of the call.
#PutinsPuppet #geopolitics #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #NATO #alliance #StandWithUkraine
The U.S.-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October, according to three sources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/26/world/politics/us-peace-plan-ukraine-russian-document/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #us #donaldtrump #stevewitkoff
A leaked phone call transcript shows #US envoy #SteveWitkoff coached #Putin aide #YuriUshakov on how Russian leader should pitch #Trump on #Ukraine “peace” plan
Trump’s chief interlocutor with #Russia last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the Trump on a peace plan aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, acc/to a transcript of the call published by Bloomberg News Tuesday.
#PutinsPuppet
https://apnews.com/article/trump-witkoff-putin-ukraine-bloomberg-3844a3721d92dd9ae9681547a0814d88
#Trump envoy #SteveWitkoff, acc/to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the news service, advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser #YuriUshakov that #Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal, say Russia had supported it & that he respects the president as a “man of peace”.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said acc/to the transcript.
#PutinsPuppet #geopolitics #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #NATO #alliance #StandWithUkraine
A leaked phone call transcript shows #US envoy #SteveWitkoff coached #Putin aide #YuriUshakov on how Russian leader should pitch #Trump on #Ukraine “peace” plan
Trump’s chief interlocutor with #Russia last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the Trump on a peace plan aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, acc/to a transcript of the call published by Bloomberg News Tuesday.
#PutinsPuppet
https://apnews.com/article/trump-witkoff-putin-ukraine-bloomberg-3844a3721d92dd9ae9681547a0814d88
A conversation between a top White House and a Kremlin official for the first time offers direct insight into what appears to be the genesis of a 28-point proposal for ending the war in Ukraine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/26/world/politics/witkoff-russia-trump-ukraine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #donaldtrump #vladimirputin #stevewitkoff #us
The list provided phonetic pronouncers for all the Russian men expected at the summit, including "Mr. President POO-tihn."
Pages 6 & 7 in the packet described how lunch at the summit would be served, and for whom. A menu included in the documents indicated that the luncheon was to be held "in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin."
A seating chart shows that #Putin & #Trump were supposed to sit across from each other during the luncheon. Trump would be flanked by: Secy of State #MarcoRubio, Secy of #Defense#PeteHegseth & WH Chief of Staff #SusieWiles to his right, & Secy of #Treasury#ScottBessent, Secy of #Commerce#HowardLutnick & Special Envoy for Peace Missions #SteveWitkoff to his left. Putin would be seated next to his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey #Lavrov, & his Aide for Foreign Policy, Yuri #Ushakov.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a bid to salvage Gaza truce talks and tackle a humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's war in the enclave. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/world/us-envoy-gaza-ceasefire-push/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #gaza #us #aid #stevewitkoff
U.S. President Donald Trump says Israel has agreed to the conditions needed for a 60-day ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and urges Hamas to accept the deal because "it will not get better." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/02/world/politics/trump-israel-60-day-gaza-ceasefire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #stevewitkoff #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #us #donaldtrump
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the trump and witkoff families' #stablecoin#USD1 has existed for like 4 weeks and it's already seeing more reported trading volume than the coinbase aligned Circle's stablecoin #USDC, which i'm sure is because of entirely legitimate financial activity and not because chinese crypto exchanges like #Binance and #OKX are wash trading and/or reporting fake volumes
#corruption #trump #stablecoins#geniusAct #uspol #uspolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency#WLFI #worldlibertyfinancial #stevewitkoff#CRCL#Circle
the trump and witkoff families' #stablecoin#USD1 has existed for like 4 weeks and it's already seeing more reported trading volume than the coinbase aligned Circle's stablecoin #USDC, which i'm sure is because of entirely legitimate financial activity and not because chinese crypto exchanges like #Binance and #OKX are wash trading and/or reporting fake volumes
#corruption #trump #stablecoins#geniusAct #uspol #uspolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency#WLFI #worldlibertyfinancial #stevewitkoff#CRCL#Circle