Steve Witkoff, the US president’s special envoy for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, said on Thursday that there is “only one issue” left in the negotiations, which can be resolved if both sides show readiness.
Witkoff addressed the participants of the panel on Ukraine at the World Economic Forum in Davos, noting that the negotiations are “at the very end of the process” and that he is “optimistic”.
“We came down to one question, we discussed its different versions, which means that it is solvable,”’emphasized the American multibillionaire whom Donald Trump appointed special envoy 11 months ago.
“If both sides want to solve it, we will solve it,” he said.
During the panel, which was attended by a large number of European leaders, Witkoff praised the Ukrainian negotiating team, with whom, as he stated, he spent more than a hundred hours during the meetings in Geneva.
“It is literally so extensive – said the envoy, adding that the Ukrainians in the hall are represented by an “incredible negotiating team”.
After Davos, Witkoff will travel to Moscow, where his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has been announced, and then to Abu Dhabi, where negotiations continue by the working teams of Ukraine and Russia.
“I think we will succeed,” the envoy concluded his intervention.
