️Update: Putin's meeting with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed.

Putin's foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushkov, said that the meeting was planned days before, and would take place at the Konstantinovsky Palace in St. Petersburg.

Witkoff is expected to appeal the release of American citizen Steven Hubbard, who was reportedly serving with Ukrainian forces in Kharkiv Oblast when Russian forces detained him in 2022.