# US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg yesterday about the search for a peace deal on Ukraine as Trump told Russia to ‘get moving’. Putin was shown on state television greeting Witkoff in St. Petersburg’s presidential library at the start of the negotiations. State news agencies later said the talks lasted more than four hours. A statement by the Kremlin afterwards said the talks covered various aspects of a peace deal in Ukraine.
US envoy Witkoff meets Putin as Trump tells Moscow to ‘get moving’ on Ukraine