US President Donald Trump has defended his key Ukraine negotiator Steve Witkoff after Bloomberg claimed to have obtained a leaked phone call between Witkoff and a top Kremlin official.
On Tuesday, Bloomberg published what it described as a transcript of Witkoff’s conversation with Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov from October 14. Neither Russia nor the US has confirmed its authenticity.
When asked aboard Air Force One if Witkoff had been “coaching” the Russians on how to deal with him, Trump said he was unaware of the alleged leak. He defended Witkoff’s approach as “standard,” adding that the envoy, a former real estate developer, had to…
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