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US particular envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived to Moscow for talks with Russia, probably with the nation’s president Vladimir Putin, forward of this Friday’s deadline set by Donald Trump for ending the struggle in Ukraine.
After touchdown, Witkoff was met by presidential particular consultant Kirill Dmitriev, however the Kremlin beforehand had mentioned that a direct assembly between the US envoy and Putin was “attainable.”
Trump mentioned final evening that the end result of the talks would inform his subsequent steps and whether or not he strikes forward with the proposed sanctions and secondary tariffs towards Russia and its buying and selling companions, together with India.
“We’re going to see what occurs,” he informed reporters. “We’ll make that dedication at the moment.”
Elsewhere, nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki can be inaugurated as the following president of Poland, marking the start of a brand new, doubtless turbulent, chapter for the nation’s pro-European authorities led by former European Council president Donald Tusk.
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It’s Wednesday, 6 August 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa right here, and that is Europe Reside.
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