Russia Agrees To Resume Trilateral Talks, Trump Says Ukraine War’s End Is Near

Russia said Wednesday it was ready to resume trilateral talks with Ukraine and the United States after Vladimir Putin met a US envoy and freed a detained American — but Moscow played down the chances of a deal to end the conflict. US President Donald Trump said it was “the closest we’ve been” to ending the war while his envoy Steve Witkoff praised Putin as a “humanitarian” for freeing US citizen Stephen Hubbard. But the Kremlin warned after Witkoff’s meeting with Putin in Saint Petersburg that there was little “substance” in the Ukrainian and European peace proposals that the US…