{"id":10137,"date":"2026-02-17T08:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/10137\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:41:34","slug":"us-special-envoy-touches-down-in-geneva-ahead-of-russia-ukraine-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/10137\/","title":{"rendered":"US special envoy touches down in Geneva ahead of Russia-Ukraine talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>17 February 2026 11:34<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A plane carrying the US President\u2019s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, landed at Geneva Airport, Switzerland, ahead of Russia\u2013Ukraine settlement talks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Bombardier Global 7500 business jet touched down at 10:55\u202fBaku time, <a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/caliber.az\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Caliber.Az<\/a> reports via <a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20260217\/zheneva-2074874140.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Russian media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco\u202fRubio noted that Witkoff and President Donald\u202fTrump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared\u202fKushner, are expected to participate in the Geneva talks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Russian delegation, led by Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, previously flew to Geneva for talks. The nine-hour journey avoided unfriendly countries, with Italy granting airspace access to reach Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On February 17\u201318, Geneva will host trilateral talks on resolving the Ukraine conflict with delegations from Russia, Ukraine, and the US. This is the third round of such meetings in 2026 \u2014 the previous two took place in Abu Dhabi on January 23\u201324 and February 4\u20135, resulting in an agreement to exchange 314 prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>By Jeyhun Aghazada<\/p>\n<p>Caliber.Az<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 94<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"17 February 2026 11:34 A plane carrying the US President\u2019s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, landed at Geneva Airport,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1031,1037,1036,65,1032,1035,1030,1034,1033,1029],"class_list":{"0":"post-10137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","9":"tag-azerbaijan","10":"tag-baku","11":"tag-geneva","12":"tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","13":"tag-international-experts","14":"tag-interviews","15":"tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","16":"tag-news-from-baku","17":"tag-news-of-azerbaijan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}