Witkoff, the man whom Washington has sent to negotiate with Putin this week, is viewed with suspicion by Kyiv and its allies after a leaked phone call suggested he was advising Moscow on how to deal with Trump, according to a transcript published by Bloomberg News.

Zelenskyy was meeting with political leaders and lawmakers in Dublin on his first official visit. Ireland is officially neutral and isn’t a member of NATO, but has sent nonlethal military support to Ukraine. More than 100,000 Ukrainians have moved to Ireland since Russia launched its war on Feb. 24, 2022.

The American at the forefront of negotiating an end to the Ukraine war is not a veteran diplomat or the US secretary of state but a billionaire real estate developer, Steve Witkoff.

The high-stakes meeting follows a series of talks between the Ukrainian delegation and top U.S. officials to revise the original 28-point peace plan.

U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has an appointment at the Kremlin, but his peace proposals seem like they will be dead on arrival. Witkoff will fly to Moscow on Tuesday with a new plan for peace hashed out among himself,

The president downplayed a report that his special envoy advised Russian officials on a peace plan.

Former head of the Ukraine's Presidential Office Andriy Yermak was supposed to fly to Miami this weekend to discuss certain details of the US peace plan with President Trump's special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner,

Leaked call transcripts between special envoy Steve Witkoff and a Putin advisor could derail Trump's progress on peace in Ukraine. And, air travel is back to normal just in time for Thanksgiving.