{"id":591730,"date":"2026-10-21T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=591730"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:31:32","slug":"witkoff-and-dmitriev-begin-talks-in-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/witkoff-and-dmitriev-begin-talks-in-st-petersburg","title":{"rendered":"Witkoff and Dmitriev Begin Talks in St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>US and Russian presidential envoys <b>Steve Witkoff<\/b> and <b>Kirill Dmitriev<\/b> are beginning talks in St. Petersburg. According to TASS, they have arrived at the Konstantinovsky Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Witkoff&#8217;s plane landed at Pulkovo Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff flew to St. Petersburg from Oslo, where he held talks the previous day with <b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b> and representatives of several European countries. They were expected to develop proposals for ending the Russian-Ukrainian war.<\/p>\n<p>Following the talks, Zelenskyy said there were clear ideas on how to achieve peace. He also reaffirmed the unity of Ukraine and its European partners.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We want the Americans to convey these ideas to the Russians. One of the important ideas is to move towards a potential trilateral meeting of leaders to address issues that only leaders can resolve,&#8221;<\/i> he said, adding that Witkoff would be in Russia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Let&#8217;s see what Putin says,&#8221;<\/i> Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and Russian presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev are beginning talks in St. Petersburg. According to TASS, they have arrived at the Konstantinovsky Palace. Earlier, Witkoff&#8217;s plane landed at Pulkovo Airport. Witkoff flew to St. Petersburg from Oslo, where he held talks the previous day with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and representatives of several European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad86a5875583.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Witkoff and Dmitriev Begin Talks in St. Petersburg"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[143121,143122,143123],"class_list":["post-591730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-rossija","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591732,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591730\/revisions\/591732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}