Downing Street and Republican senators turn on Trump envoy Steve Witkoff for calling Putin a 'humanitarian'
Steve Witkoff (right), the top Trump aide, with Vladimir Putin, as a Kremlin aide said a new round of three-way peace talks could be held around 10 November in Abu Dhabi.Stephen Hubbard was reportedly in poor health when freed, with Texas understood to be his destination for medical treatment after the retired Michigan teacher spent almost four years in Russian custody on mercenary…
Within hours of Steve Witkoff's praise, Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv, leaving at least one dead and 22 injured, four of them children. The US envoy had saluted Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg for freeing Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old American teacher held since 2022. Prime Minister Andy Burnham's spokeswoman said Putin 'has killed thousands of people'. Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has now invoked Churchill's 'crocodile' warning.
Senator Thom Tillis called it 'an embarrassing and outrageous thing to say'.
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said 'the Russians must be laughing their heads off'.
The White House hit back at one critic: 'This is why you're not a negotiator.'
