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Downing Street rejects Witkoff’s description of Putin as a ‘humanitarian’
Aletha Adu Political correspondent · The Guardian · World
Published 23 Oct 2026, 3:33 am·59 min ago·1 min read
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No 10 says Russian president ‘has killed thousands of people, both innocent Ukrainians and his own people’ Downing Street has rejected the description of Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian” made by Donald Trump’s chief negotiator on the Ukraine war. Steve Witkoff met the Russian president in St Petersburg on Wednesday as he sought to make a new push to end the invasion of Ukraine, with the US putting pressure on Kyiv to agree to a settlement. Continue reading...
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