Witkoff meets Putin as Trump urges Russia to ‘get shifting’ on Ukraine

US particular envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin on Friday as Donald Trump urged the Russian president to “get shifting” on a ceasefire in Ukraine.

It will likely be Witkoff’s third assembly with Putin this 12 months, throughout which the US has did not get Russia to comply with a full ceasefire with Ukraine.

Trump has beforehand expressed his frustration with Putin over the state of talks and on Friday he wrote on social media: “Russia has to get shifting. Too many individuals ere [sic] DYING, hundreds per week, in a horrible and mindless struggle.”

The assembly comes because the UK and Germany hosted a gathering of Ukraine’s allies in Brussels, the place 50 nations agreed €21bn (£18.2bn) in navy support for Kyiv.