Donald Trump: Having meetings with Russia on Wednesday

US President Donald Trump has announced an unadorned meeting of the United States with Russia for Wednesday. There will be a meeting with Russia tomorrow, the Republican told journalists on Tuesday (local time). “We’ll see what happens.” He did not provide any more information – even who takes part in the meeting.

The AFP news agency, citing US government circles, reports that the US specialist Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow on Wednesday. He would come there with representatives of the Russian leadership, it said on Tuesday. It is unclear whether Witkoff also meets Russian President Vladimir Putin. A Kremlin spokesman had not excluded this at the beginning of the week.

Trump had already announced days ago that he would like to send his special envoy Steve Witkoff to Russia in the middle of the week.

In a few days, a period of time Trump had set to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Until then, a ceasefire between Russia and the Ukraine attacked by Moscow is to be reached. The 10-day period has been running in-Moscow has not entered, Trump wants to impose punitive tariffs from Russian trading partners such as India, which further relate to oil from Russia.

U.S. President Donald Trump had called Putin for concessions with a view to Witkoff’s planned mission. The Kremlin chief should “close a deal that ends the killing of people,” said Trump. Most recently, the US President had significantly tightened Putin. He called him “crazy” for the continued attacks on Ukraine and complained: “We get a lot of crap from Putin.”

With his customs threat, the US President wants to further weaken the economic basis of the Kremlin, in particular that large buyers in the energy sector such as China and India are increasingly under pressure. Russia has been waging a war against its neighboring country for more than three years.

Trump had already announced on Monday that I wanted to prove India with higher tariffs in the context of the Russian war of aggression. He wrote nothing about a concrete amount. At the end of July, he spoke to India of at least 25 percent tariffs and an unspecified punishment.

Trump also sent two nuclear submarines towards Russia. He called this an “ultimate threat”. This was preceded by a verbal exchange of blows with the former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. This had described the ultimatum set by Trump as the “step towards war”.

Witkoff is said to create peace for Trump in Ukraine and the Middle East. The magazine “The Atlantic” calls Witkoff to the “actual foreign minister” of the USA and the “special officers for more or less everything”. The real estate entrepreneur himself is called “special representative of the president of peace missions”.

Witkoff has been traveling to Russia and through the Middle East instead of Foreign Minister Marco Rubio for months. In between he letters Trump in the White House. His influence in Washington is so great that Trump’s Ukrainian commissioned Keith Kellogg is hardly mentioned.

Between February and April, the special representative Putin met four times according to official information. Little has come out, at least not the peace announced by Trump in Ukraine.

Even if Witkoff has so far reached little peace in terms of peace, he made announcements that made headlines in the United States. In February he was releasing the release of the US prisoner Marc Fogel in February. The teacher was arrested in the luggage in Russia with medical cannabis in 2021. In May, Witkoff contributed to the release of the US Israeli Geisel Edan Alexander through the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Witkoff had no foreign policy experience when Trump appointed him a special representative. Witkoff comes from New York like Trump and made his fortune with real estate – initially as a company lawyer, then as a boss of a large company. In 1997 he founded the Witkoff Group.

He has been friends with Trump for almost 40 years. Witkoff met Trump in 1986, according to his own description, in a random encounter in a delicatessen. Witkoff said that he had ordered a ham and cheese sandwich because he had no money.

Last year, the real estate entrepreneur supported Trump’s election campaign. The US President appointed him the Middle East sent him before he took office in January, later Witkoff became a “Peace Commissioner”.

In March, Witkoff had had admiration for Putin in an interview with the ultra -right podcaster Tucker Carlson. He doesn’t think he is a “bad guy,” he said. Witkoff has not repeated this assessment lately.