{"id":21081,"date":"2025-04-15T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T05:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21081"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T05:51:31","slug":"trump-envoy-says-putin-open-to-permanent-peace-deal-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-envoy-says-putin-open-to-permanent-peace-deal-with-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoy says Putin open to ‘permanent peace’ deal with Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President Donald Trump’s special envoy said Monday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was open to a “permanent peace” deal with Ukraine, following talks seeking to end the more than three-year war.<\/p>\n

Trump has been pressing Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a ceasefire but has failed to extract any major concessions from the Kremlin, despite repeated negotiations between Russian and US officials.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Putin in Saint Petersburg — their third meeting third since the Republican leader returned to the White House in January.<\/p>\n

Witkoff said during a Fox News interview televised Monday that he sees a peace deal “emerging,” and that two key Putin advisers — Yuri Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev — were in the “compelling meeting.”<\/p>\n

“Putin’s request is to get to have a permanent peace here. So beyond the ceasefire, we got an answer to that,” Witkoff said, acknowledging that “it took a while for us to get to this place.”<\/p>\n

“I think we might be on the verge of something that would be very, very important for the world at large.”<\/p>\n

He added that business deals between Russia and the United States were also part of the negotiations.<\/p>\n

“I believe there’s a possibility to reshape the Russian-United States relationship through some very compelling commercial opportunities, that I think give real stability to the region too,” he said.<\/p>\n

Despite a flurry of diplomacy, there has been little meaningful progress on Trump’s main aim of achieving a Ukraine ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Putin last month rejected a joint US-Ukrainian proposal for a full and unconditional pause in the conflict, while the Kremlin has made a truce in the Black Sea conditional on the West lifting certain sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy said Monday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was open to a “permanent peace” deal with Ukraine, following talks seeking to end the more than three-year war. Trump has been pressing Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a ceasefire but has failed to extract any major concessions from the Kremlin, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21082,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081\/revisions\/21082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}