Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, holds talks with Putin in the middle of the sanctions threat

The envoy of the White House, Steve Witkoff, landed in Russia on Wednesday for his fifth visit with Russian president Vladimir Putin while President Donald Trump seeks to force a peace agreement and end the three and a half years war in Ukraine.

It seems that few things do not seem to be accomplished from the three -hour meeting to conclude a peace agreement, or even bypassing Trump’s threatened sanctions that Putin now looks at, although according to the Russian adviser in foreign policy Yuri Ushakov, the meeting was described as “useful and constructive”.

Ushakov said Putin “received Trump signals” and “sent signals”, but he explained no details.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets the special envoy of the American president Steve Witkoff (R) at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, August 6, 2025. (Kremlin Press Office / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images)

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The advisor also told journalists that Putin and Witkoff had discussed the development of the “strategic partnership” between the United States and Russia, but did not explain how. The comment came after Witkoff was spotted earlier during the day, walking near the Kremlin with Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian president for investment and economic cooperation.

Witkoff and Putin met shortly before noon in Moscow, according to the horoditing published by the Kremlin who accompanied an image of Putin and Witkoff smiling and shaking his hand while the Russian adviser in foreign policy Yuri Ushakov looked at him.

The Witkoff team did not answer Fox News Digital questions on what the envoy hoped to accomplish during his meeting with Putin, although some reports this week suggested that he can seek to obtain a moratorium on air strikes.

A police officer on the site of a Russian air strike who struck a residential building in kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 10, 2025. (Andrew Kravchenko / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Witkoff went to Moscow in a last effort to have Putin capitulated Putin’s calls from Trump and Western at the end of the war, although the chief of the Kremlin was not to make great concessions to end his war ambitions before the trip.

In mid-July, when he was sitting next to the NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, Trump promised to enforce the “very serious” prices on Russia if Putin does not conclude an agreement with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy within 50 days.

“Prices at around 100%, you would call them secondary prices,” he said, which implies that nations that exchange with Russia will see 100%prices

He then pushed the date up to the 10 days of July 29, forcing the new deadline on Friday.

But Tuesday, Trump fell 100% in the midst of difficult commercial talks with India and China, and said: “I never said a percentage”.

“We will see what is happening during the next fairly short period,” he added in response to journalists’ questions. “We have a meeting with Russia tomorrow. We will see what’s going on.

President Donald Trump, on the right, and Mark Rutte, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), serve their hands during a meeting at the Oval Maison Blanche office in Washington, DC, Monday, July 14, 2025. (Yuri Gripas / Abaca / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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“We are going to take this determination at that time,” he added.

The prices would most radically target China and India, which are the largest Russian oil buyers, although high prices on these nations, which are both major traders in the United States, would also mean higher prices for the American consumer.