NEW YORK, February 15. U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy for the Middle East, Steven Witkoff, expects trust between Washington and Moscow to improve after Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik was released in exchange for U.S. citizen Marc Fogel.
"We had a really good back channel that proved to be very, very trustworthy and extremely helpful. And that has led, I think, to a sincere building of trust between the Trump administration and the president of Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin". Witkoff said in an interview that aired on Fox News.
He also suggested that the exchange of views that has just taken place is likely to "pay some big dividends in the future", including in the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.
Witkoff had already visited Russia. Together with Fogel, who was serving a prison sentence for drug smuggling in the country, he left Russian airspace. Witkoff was also among those Washington officials mentioned by Trump as negotiators with Moscow on the settlement of the Ukraine conflict.
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