Downing Street rejects Trump envoy Steve Witkoff's praise of Putin as a 'humanitarian' while Kyiv is bombarded again
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…
Scotland Secretary Douglas Alexander answered 'No, we don't' when asked if Britain agreed, citing Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine and attempted assassinations on UK soil. Witkoff used the word while thanking Putin in St Petersburg for freeing Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired US teacher. Republican and Democratic lawmakers also rebuked him. The White House is reportedly 'rattled' by the blowback.
Alexander said Britain stands 'foursquare behind Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine'.
The Kremlin says the new Ukrainian and European peace proposals lack 'substance'.
Russia is 'in principle' ready to resume trilateral talks in mid-November, after the midterms.
