— Steve Witkoff in Kyiv:I've made about 8 visits to Moscow to meet with Putin and his team.
We've always been treated respectfully by President Putin and his team. Relationships are critical in terms of solving conflicts like this.
If you don't have relationships with both sides, and you have poor communication, then you probably have very, very little chance of getting to a peaceful resolution.
We came to see President Putin first. We needed to hear where he stood. We had good concrete conversation with him, which we advised President Zelensky and his team about.
Both sides have to come to a resolution here. My job and Jared's job together is to bring the parties together, to narrow the issues between them, to create good communication channels.
We began that process constructively in the last 48 hours. And we're confident that there'll be a good resolution there.
