Speaking after last night’s (fifth) visit by US Special Envoy Steve Witkov, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “When Mr. Whitkov brings all the information In President Trump, we will determine the timetable of a conversation (between Trump and Putin). “

“There is an understanding of all sides that such a debate is needed. There are reasons to be cautiously optimistic ‘, Peskov noted.

Peskov essentially repeated the same rhetoric used by US National Security Advisor Mike Walts in an interview with Fox.

The US president’s expert envoy has already departed from Moscow, confirmed a source on TASS.

Vladimir Putin’s close foreign policy adviser Yuri Usakov said the Russian president’s meeting with Whitkov will take place when everything is ready for her.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski has previously accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of a “handling” response to the US proposal for a ceasefire, saying that Putin pretended to accept her “at a time when he was in fact ready to reject her”.

“Putin often does it – he does not say ” no ” directly, but delayed things and makes rational solutions impossible, ‘, he said.