️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Axios: White House envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Wednesday to present an updated proposal to end the war in Ukraine, a US official said, with Jared Kushner joining in on the act, as the White House hopes Trump will agree to another compromise on the Russian issue. Sales.

Trump said he thought "Russia would want to do it," but expressed doubt about Zelensky, adding:

"We want Zelensky to make a deal. If they don't make a deal, it will only get worse."

The meeting followed a day of talks in Oslo with Zelensky and European leaders focused on a unified "framework agreement," in which Kushner reportedly pressed Trump's demand that Ukraine end attacks on Russian refineries, with Zelensky saying he was willing to do so if Moscow took reciprocal steps.