{"id":2479470,"date":"2025-08-27T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/witkoff-to-meet-ukrainians-in-new-york-this-week-as-peace-prospects-falter\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:48:36","slug":"witkoff-to-meet-ukrainians-in-new-york-this-week-as-peace-prospects-falter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/witkoff-to-meet-ukrainians-in-new-york-this-week-as-peace-prospects-falter\/","title":{"rendered":"Witkoff to meet Ukrainians in New York this week as peace prospects falter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwitkoff-to-meet-ukrainians-in-new-york-this-week-as-peace-prospects-falter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2479470&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that Steve Witkoff, an envoy for former President Donald Trump, plans to meet with Ukrainian leaders in New York to discuss peace efforts amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Witkoff emphasized that talks with both Ukrainians and Russians are ongoing, despite Russia&#8217;s hesitation to directly negotiate with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov referred to Zelensky as the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-make-clear-hes-still-in-charge-of-republican-party-at-cpac-report\/\" title=\"... To Make Clear He\u2019s \u2018Still In Charge\u2019 Of Republican Party At CPAC: Report\">de facto head<\/a>&#8221; of Ukraine&#8217;s government but expressed reluctance to formalize agreements with him, complicating peace prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has expressed frustration over stalled progress as his recent summit with Russian President vladimir Putin and has pushed for a bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelensky, which he is willing to attend if necesary. Witkoff mentioned that a proposed peace deal involves the Donetsk region-one of the areas russia annexed in 2022-though it may be unacceptable to Ukraine.President Zelensky has firmly rejected any deal requiring territorial concessions, citing constitutional prohibitions.<\/p>\n<p>Key issues include Russia&#8217;s demands to limit Ukraine&#8217;s military capabilities, prevent NATO membership, and bar foreign troops from deploying in Ukraine to deter future Russian aggression. Trump has ruled out NATO expansion to Ukraine and U.S. troop deployments but remains open to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-herschel-walker-super-pac-launches-ad-campaign-to-boost-georgia-senate-bid-against-democrat-raphael-warnock\/\" title=\"Pro-Herschel Walker Super PAC Launches Ad Campaign to Boost Georgia Senate Bid Against Democrat Raphael Warnock\">providing air support<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >situation reflects deep challenges<\/a> in achieving a diplomatic resolution to the conflict,with both sides maintaining firm and conflicting positions. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Witkoff to meet Ukrainians in New York this week as peace prospects falter<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2213027\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s envoy Steve Witkoff said he will be meeting with Ukrainian leaders in New York this week as the U.S. seeks to end the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia-ukraine-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russia-Ukraine war<\/a> despite Moscow&rsquo;s reluctance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will be meeting with them this week in New York and that&rsquo;s a big signal,&rdquo; he said on Fox News &ldquo;Special Report&rdquo; Tuesday night, adding that the administration simultaneously &ldquo;talk[s] to the Russians every day.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3784300\/watch-live-minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-annuciation-church-shooting\/\">WATCH LIVE: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey gives press conference after Annunciation shooting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3784125\/labor-day-gas-prices-lowest-in-years\/\">Labor Day gas prices expected to be lowest in years<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3784093\/trump-slams-nbc-rumors-seth-meyers-contract-extension\/\">Trump slams NBC after rumors of Seth Meyers contract extension<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump has said he wants to see Russian leader Vladimir Putin meet with Ukrainian leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> to discuss ending the war, but the Kremlin has been reluctant to engage directly with Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3780098\/lavrov-russia-putin-meet-zelensky-de-facto-head-regime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">referred to Zelensky<\/a>&nbsp;as the &ldquo;de facto head of the [Ukrainian] regime&rdquo; last weekend in an interview with NBC News. He told the host that Russia is &ldquo;ready to meet with him&rdquo; but said signing an agreement with someone they view as &ldquo;illegitimate&rdquo; would be a different matter.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in responding to those comments at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, said, &ldquo;Everybody&rsquo;s posturing, it&rsquo;s all bull****. OK? Everybody&rsquo;s posturing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>His frustration comes as it&rsquo;s been nearly two weeks since his historic summit with Putin in Alaska at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, with little progress to show for it since then. Trump said before and after the meeting that one of his goals was securing a Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting that he would be willing to attend if needed.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days after the meeting, Trump met with Zelensky and seven other European leaders at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/White-House\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Lavrov raised doubts about their willingness to make a deal with Zelensky, Witkoff said on Tuesday that they have shared an offer to end the war, though he acknowledged it &ldquo;may not be something that the Ukrainians can take.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff said the deal &ldquo;involves Donetsk,&rdquo; one of the four regions in Ukraine that Russia illegitimately annexed in September 2022. The others were Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson, which were occupied by Russia and then voted to join Russia in referenda that were widely disputed internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Russia currently occupies about a fifth of Ukraine&rsquo;s territory, which is less than what it held at its peak.<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces have been battling against Ukrainian troops in Donetsk and Luhansk &mdash; which is commonly referred to as the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine &mdash; since 2014, and yet the Russians have still been unable to capture the entire Donetsk oblast. The Russians control the entire Crimean Peninsula, almost all of the Luhansk oblast, and about three-quarters of the other three regions.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has discussed the idea of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-echoes-trump-on-russia-ukraine-land-swaps\/\" title=\"Graham echoes ... on Russia-Ukraine &#039;land swaps&#039;\">land swaps&#038;rdquo<\/a>; as a part of any agreement, and said he&rsquo;d try to make sure both sides have to give up land, meaning the Russians giving up territory they currently occupy.<\/p>\n<p>Should the offer Witkoff mentioned include giving up the entirety of Donetsk, it would mean Ukraine giving up land that it hasn&rsquo;t lost in more than a decade of fighting and more than three and a half years since the full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky has said he would not agree to any deal that requires giving up Ukrainian territory, and has pointed out that the country&rsquo;s constitution prohibits it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff maintained that Putin told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">president<\/a> during their in-person meeting that he &ldquo;wanted peace.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another sticking point for Ukrainian leaders is ensuring that there are mechanisms in place after the war concludes to ensure Russia doesn&rsquo;t decide to restart the conflict. Russia, the leaders of which have expansionist views of restoring the Soviet empire, wants to ensure Ukraine is left weaker than it is now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3783269\/trump-dismisses-russian-comments-zelensky-illegitimate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TRUMP DISMISSES RUSSIAN COMMENTS THAT ZELENSKY IS ILLEGITIMATE: &lsquo;IT&rsquo;S ALL BULLS***&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Russians, in a deal to end the war, want to put limits on the capacity of Ukraine&rsquo;s military, want a guarantee that they will not be given NATO membership, and do not want other European countries or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NATO<\/a> to deploy troops to Ukraine to deter future Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has ruled out NATO membership for Ukraine and deploying U.S. troops to Ukraine as a part of such a peacekeeping force, but has kept open the possibility of air support for them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witkoff to meet Ukrainians in New York amid stalled peace talks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2671,"featured_media":2479471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Witkoff.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[3817,32120,38128,6991,44704],"class_list":["post-2479470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-diplomacy","tag-new-york","tag-peace-talks","tag-ukraine","tag-witkoff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Witkoff.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479474,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479470\/revisions\/2479474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}