Ukraine-Russia war live: Trump envoy rejects Starmer’s peace plan ahead of ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia
Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff has rejected Keir Starmer’s peace plans for Ukraine as “a posture and a pose” as he praised Vladimir Putin as a “smart guy”.
The British prime minister suggested a “coalition of the willing” of several European and Nato nations keen on providing military assistance and boots on the ground to Ukraine after a ceasefire.
“I think it’s a combination of a posture and a pose and a combination of also being simplistic. There is this sort of notion that we have all got to be like Winston Churchill. Russians are going to march across Europe. That is preposterous by the way. We have something called Nato that we did not have in World War Two,” Mr Witkoff told Tucker Carlson in an interview.
He also praised Mr Putin, saying he “liked” the Russian president.“I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy. He’s super smart,” Mr Witkoff told far-right commentator Tucker Carlson. “I just don’t see that he wants to take all of Europe,” Mr Witkoff said, calling it a much different situation than the Second World War.
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