Trump’s special envoys postpone trip to Moscow, Axios reports
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, special envoys of the U.S. president, have postponed their visit to Moscow, Axios reported.
Special envoys for President Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, have decided to delay their trip to Moscow, according to Axios. The postponement is contingent on Ukraine and its European Union allies' decision to accept a new peace proposal, the specifics of which are still undisclosed. On October 9, Axios reported that Witkoff and Kushner were pushing for "new ideas and proposals" to conclude the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
At the time, they were scheduled to visit Russia before the end of October to discuss "new ideas" with Russian authorities. The Russian news agency TASS corroborated this on the same day, stating the envoys' visit to Russia was expected within "the next two weeks." Witkoff and Kushner's last visit to Moscow was on September 5, following which they journeyed to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The New York Times, on October 10, mentioned the United States' offer to release billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets in the West to help Russia agree to a partial ceasefire in the war with Ukraine. On October 11, Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to a truce in the energy sector, though Zelensky told Axios that he was unaware of this truce. As of October 12, Russian authorities had not confirmed their agreement to the truce.
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