Witkoff, the man whom Washington has sent to negotiate with Putin this week, is viewed with suspicion by Kyiv and its allies after a leaked phone call suggested he was advising Moscow on how to deal with Trump, according to a transcript published by Bloomberg News.

Negotiations at the Kremlin between U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted over four hours.

A report revealed the U.S. diplomat to be advising Russia on how to get through to Trump, raising questions about his priorities and foreign business ties.

Leaked call transcripts between special envoy Steve Witkoff and a Putin advisor could derail Trump's progress on peace in Ukraine. And, air travel is back to normal just in time for Thanksgiving.

Donald Trump is sticking with longtime friend and special envoy for peace missions, Steve Witkoff, even as a report late Tuesday appeared to portray Witkoff as coaching an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin on how to approach the U.

The Russian leader called the U.S. special envoy “an intelligent man” who is properly representing his country in peace negotiations.

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade hammers Steve Witkoff’s ‘totally unacceptable’ call: He ‘likes Russia too much’ - ‘You can't be telling Vladimir Putin how to handle your best friend,’ Brian Kilmeade argued on Monday.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived in Paris for talks with France’s Emmanuel Macron at the start of a crunch week for war-battered Ukraine. The meeting takes place as Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff heads to Moscow and EU defense ministers gather in Brussels.