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SAINT PETERSBURG — 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…
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