Karasin named the purpose of Witkoff's visit to Russia

The meeting with the special envoy of the American leader Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, will show the real position of the United States on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Grigory Karasin, head of the Federation Council's International Affairs Committee, told Izvestia.

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"There will be contacts with him that will show that, in fact, the United States is not referring to the public space, what is their attitude towards the absolutely destructive role that the EU countries are currently playing, tightly holding the regime of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in their hands. This will all be discussed. I think that after these contacts, we will at least find out everything in substance. Therefore, we must have patience, calmness and give in to emotions less," the senator added.

A few days ago, Donald Trump announced that Steve Witkoff was heading to Russia. Since the arrival of the new US administration, he has already visited three times, the last one on April 11. After that, a month later, direct negotiations between Moscow and Kiev began.