ASSASSINATION. Meanwhile Zelensky Speaks of Peace with Trump Spokespeople for both leaders confirmed their face-to-face meeting, but it is unclear whether they met in St. Peter’s shortly before the start of the ceremony or also at Villa Taverna, the seat of the US diplomatic representation in the capital, where both cars were seen entering. Trump has said that his special envoy Steve Witkoff had a good meeting in Moscow. “Witkoff had a good meeting,” Reuters quoted him as saying.
Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier in the day. Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said earlier that Putin had received Witkoff at the Kremlin. In his words, their conversation, which lasted three hours, was “constructive and quite useful.”
But just as talks between the US and Russia for a truce in Ukraine continue, Kiev intelligence is accused of killing a Moscow general.
The Washington Post links the attack to Kiev’s attempt to disrupt negotiations on the “Trump Peace Plan” discussed on April 26 in Rome, where Trump met with Zelensky.