Downing Street rejects Witkoff’s description of Putin as a ‘humanitarian’

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Source: The Guardian World · NewTimes editorial text based on the source feed.

No 10 says Russian president ‘has killed thousands of people, both innocent Ukrainians and his own people’ Downing Street has rejected the description of Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian” made by Donald Trump’s chief negotiator on the Ukraine war.

Steve Witkoff met the Russian president in St Petersburg on Wednesday as he sought to make a new push to end the invasion of Ukraine, with the US putting pressure on Kyiv to agree to a settlement.