Trump’s recommendation After welcoming US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow, Putin stated that he did not want the war to end. According to reports, Witkoff was there to talk about a peace proposal for Ukraine mediated by the US.
After these discussions, though, a defiant Zelensky reaffirmed his stance on Crimea and denied that Ukraine would cede the area to the Kremlin.
Ukraine believed that the United States may coerce Ukraine into ceding the area to the Kremlin as part of a peace agreement after Russia illegally annexed it in 2014.
“The Ukrainian constitution states that all the temporarily occupied territories… belong to Ukraine,” Zelensky said, maintaining that the territory is still the property of the Ukrainian people.
Ahead to today’s election of a new pope, the cardinals of the Catholic Church met for the ninth time in an almost daily series at the Vatican.
The ‘general congregations’ are held behind closed doors, allowing them to talk about the difficulties facing the new pope before they are sealed into the Sistine Chapel for the vote on Wednesday.
