{"id":593507,"date":"2025-11-25T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593507\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:22:14","slug":"witkoff-advised-russia-on-how-to-pitch-ukraine-plan-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593507\/","title":{"rendered":"Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine \u2014 and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In an Oct. 14 phone call that lasted a little over five minutes, Witkoff advised Yuri Ushakov, Putin\u2019s top foreign policy aide, on how the Russian leader should broach the issue with Trump. His guidance included suggestions on setting up a Trump-Putin call before Volodymyr Zelenskiy\u2019s White House visit later that week and using the Gaza agreement as a way in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[3616,2194,186719,285,332,657,333,109290,771,1018,186718],"class_list":{"0":"post-593507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-john-trump","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-kirill-a-dmitriev","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-vladimir-putin","15":"tag-volodymyr-oleksandrovych-zelenskiy","16":"tag-war","17":"tag-white-house","18":"tag-yuri-e-ushakov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115612204832864697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}