Denis Kravchenko
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Witkoff shuttles between Oslo and St Petersburg as US reports progress on Ukraine peace track
US special envoy Steve Witkoff met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders in Oslo on 20 October, then travelled to St Petersburg to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on 21 October. After the meetings, US President Donald Trump said ending the war was closer than ever, the Kremlin said Russia was generally ready for renewed trilateral talks in the first ten days of November, and Ukrainian Ambassador-at-Large Serhiy Korsunsky argued that Putin would not attend without Ukrainian capitulation.