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Rosenberg: US diplomatic push offers little hope for imminent Ukraine peace
Witkoff (R) said there was still important work to do after the meeting with Putin (L)
After two days of diplomacy – in Norway's capital and Russia's St Petersburg – is the war in Ukraine any closer to ending?
"Good and constructive" is how Norway's prime minister described Tuesday's talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and European representatives.
In Oslo, the idea of a trilateral meeting at leaders' level was floated. The hope was that Steve Witkoff's trip to Russia would pave the way for President Vladimir Putin, Zelensky and Trump to meet and agree an end to the fighting.
But Putin has shown little desire to share a table with Zelensky - unless that table is in Moscow.
The Kremlin says it may be willing to resume trilateral talks next month in Abu Dhabi, but only at the technical level.
In a post on X, Steve Witkoff himself conceded that "there is still important work to do", though he claimed "President Trump remains committed to seeing this war end..."
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