US envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Friday, as Donald Trump called on Putin to “get moving” on a ceasefire in Ukraine.
The Kremlin said the meeting lasted over four hours and focused on a possible resolution to the war.
This was Witkoff’s third meeting with Putin this year, and special envoy Kirill Dmitriev called the talks “productive”.
Trump, frustrated with the lack of progress, wrote on social media: “Russia has to get moving. Too many people are DYING, thousands a week, in a terrible and senseless war.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg denied claims that he had suggested Ukraine could be split up.
Earlier on Friday, European countries agreed to give €21 billion ($24 billion; £18 billion) in military aid to Ukraine.
At the event, Europe’s defence ministers said there was no sign the war would end soon.
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