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On Sunday President Donald Trump said that his special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Moscow, likely on Wednesday or Thursday of this week. Once there, Witkoff is expected to deliver The White House’s directive to end the Ukraine war, or at least attain a ceasefire prior to Trump’s additional sanctions being applied.
“Yeah, get a deal where people stop getting killed,” Trump said, going on to discuss the sanctions he is set to apply on Russia if no ceasefire is accomplished. “Well, there’ll be sanctions, but they seem to be pretty good at avoiding sanctions. You know, they are wily characters, and they’re pretty good at avoiding sanctions.”
On July 28 Trump reduced the deadline he gave Russia and Ukraine to make a peace deal from 50 days on July 14 to just 10 to 12 days.
Originally Witkoff was set to arrive in Moscow on Sunday but the itinerary was pushed back. The meeting time is notable as it follows a spat between Trump and a high-level Russian official last week.
On Friday Trump said that he is deploying nuclear submarines in response to Russian Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev’s statements. Medvedev’s statements were in response to Trump’s criticism of him. Notably, nuclear submarines are made to be near impossible to track while underwater, so the announcement appears to be political in nature, rather than some grand military strategy.
The Kremlin has since responded to Trump’s nuclear submarine statements.
“Russia is very attentive to the topic of nuclear non-proliferation. And we believe that everyone should be very, very cautious with nuclear rhetoric,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday.
Based on the heating up of tensions between the White House and the Kremlin last week, Witkoff’s meeting has a chance of deescalating the rhetoric.
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