{"id":177230,"date":"2025-08-06T12:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/08\/06\/us-envoy-witkoff-meets-putin-as-trumps-sanctions-deadline-nears-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:20:12","slug":"us-envoy-witkoff-meets-putin-as-trumps-sanctions-deadline-nears-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/08\/06\/us-envoy-witkoff-meets-putin-as-trumps-sanctions-deadline-nears-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoy Witkoff meets Putin as Trump&rsquo;s sanctions deadline nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Wednesday, two days before the expiry of a deadline set by President Donald Trump for Russia to agree to peace in Ukraine or face new sanctions. Witkoff flew to Moscow on a last-minute mission to seek a breakthrough in the 3-1\/2-year war that began with Russia&rsquo;s full-scale invasion. Russian state TV showed a brief clip of him shaking hands with Putin at the start of their meeting. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Douglas Herbert analyses Russia&rsquo;s stance, saying the Kremlin is buying time to try to avoid any serious negotiation on its war in Ukraine.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Wednesday, two days before the expiry of a deadline set by President Donald Trump for Russia to agree to peace in Ukraine or face new sanctions. Witkoff flew to Moscow on a last-minute mission to seek a breakthrough in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-177230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}