Washington and Moscow have agreed to engage in peace negotiations in December, aims at putting an end to the three-old Russia-Ukraine conflict. Reports said a tentative agreement has been struck, Special Presidential Envoy, Steve Witkoff, is unwaveringly expected for further Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Moscow, Kremlin Aide Yury Ushakov told TV reporter Pavel Zarubin.

In that Zarubin’s report, Yury Ushakov noted that the leaked transcripts of his alleged conversations with Steve Witkoff were intended to hinder efforts to improve Russia-US relations. According the local Russian media, “A tentative agreement has been reached that he will come to Moscow next week.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to receive the US envoy: “If Witkoff comes, the Russian president will definitely receive him.” Russia and the United States have not yet engaged in discussions of the Ukraine peace plan, but the process will begin during Steve Witkoff’s visit to Moscow; the US envoy won’t be travelling to Russia alone.

As reported worldwide, what’s at stake concretely is Washington’s peace plan for Ukraine. President Donald Trump has drawn a 28-point US peace plan, considered as highlighting what was referred to as depicting a “substantial progress” in bringing Russia’s and Ukraine’s positions closer together in a newly drafted agreement. U.S. has taken this initiative, primarily due to previous failures by several individual states and groups in implementing peace agreement between the former Soviet neighbours. 

Russia has not yet been formally presented with the US peace plan for Ukraine, but the document has been sent to Moscow through unofficial channels. “It’s not official, but we have the document.”

Russia has unofficially........

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