U.S. special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff has said that he hopes that the upcoming phone call between the U.S. and Russian presidents, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, will be successful.
"I believe that the president is going to have a successful call," Witkoff said, adding that the U.S. believes that the direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul had yielded good results.
According to him, this phone call will help promote talks between Russia and Ukraine. The envoy said e believes he conversation "will go a long way towards identifying where we are and how we complete this negotiation."
"I think in a negotiation like this, people take positions. The art here is to narrow that, you know, wide berth between the parties. And I think to some extent we've done that," Steve Witkoff said.
Earlier, Trump announced that he planned to talks to Putin at ten in the morning (2:00 p.m. GMT) on May 19.
