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据德国媒体《图片报》报道，一些人认为，普京呼吁从乌克兰东部的赫尔松和扎波罗热“和平撤军”，而维特科夫误解了普京的呼吁，认为这意味着要从那里撤出俄罗斯军队。
然而，他们认为，普京的真正意思是让乌克兰军队撤出俄罗斯在战争期间试图吞并的这两个地区。
Trump’s envoy ‘misunderstood’ Putin’s territorial demands as concessions, media report
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, “misunderstood” Russian leader Vladimir Putin, German news outlet BILD reported.
Witkoff’s Kremlin talks ‘constructive’ as US sanctions deadline looms
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According to the outlet’s sources, Witkoff’s ceasefire proposal delivered to Putin in recent discussions entailed freezing the conflict along the current lines of control. In return, the Kremlin would see a broad lifting of sanctions and an offer of new economic agreements.
This offer does not satisfy the Russians, however, who still insist on full control of the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions and southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Bild reported.
Russia currently occupies practically all of the Luhansk region and most of the Donetsk region, where its forces have been making creeping advances since the start of the war. These are also the only regions whose capitals are under Russian control, after Ukraine successfully liberated the city of Kherson back in November 2022.
In spite of that, Russia claims ownership of the entirety of the regions’ territories based on “referendums” it carried out in areas under its control in late September 2022.
What is more, Witkoff appears to have misinterpreted some statements made by Putin as concessions. One example cited by BILD was the Russian leader’s demand for a “peaceful withdrawal” of Ukrainian forces from Russian-claimed territory. Witkoff reportedly understood this as an offer of a “peaceful withdrawal” of Russian forces.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly said Ukraine would never recognize Russia’s sovereignty over its conquered regions and rejected Moscow’s other demands, such as the pledge to abandon Kyiv’s ambition to join NATO.
“Witkoff doesn’t know what he's talking about,” BILD quoted one Ukrainian official as saying, an assessment reportedly shared by representatives of the German government.
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UPDATE: US set to go ahead with Russia sanctions though Trump hails ‘great progress’ in peace talks
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In a recent conference call between Witkoff, State Secretary Marco Rubio, and Vice President JD Vance and European representatives, the special envoy was clearly out of his depth, the outlet wrote.
BILD reports that the Europeans found the envoy’s statement about his conversation with Putin “confusing,” and Witkoff seemed “overwhelmed and incompetent” when discussing territorial issues.
Witkoff, a real estate billionaire, had no diplomatic experience before being appointed by Trump to serve as his special envoy for the Middle East, but was subsequently tasked with seeking a ceasefire in Ukraine, and met with Putin several times.
Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet in person to discuss the peace terms in the Ukraine war on August 15 in Alaska. This will be the the first time they meet in person since the U.S. president began his second term in January.
Trump’s envoy misinterpreted Putin’s demands as concessions: media
Witkoff was apparently confused as to which country’s forces should withdraw.tvpworld.com
Questions swirl about whether Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff misunderstood Putin’s offer on Ukraine
By Ryan King
Published Aug. 10, 2025, 5:37 p.m. ET
Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Donetsk are territories in the southeast of Ukraine.
Since the war broke out, Russia has been keen on taking control over four territories it has deemed oblasts: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. That’s in addition to its annexation of Crimea in 2014.
But Witkoff later made a different claim to Europeans last Thursday that Putin offered to freeze and withdraw from the front line, according to the report.
By last Friday, Witkoff clarified to his counterparts that what Putin actually offered was for Ukraine to pull out of Donetsk in exchange for a cease-fire.
Several European officials are speculating that Witkoff also may have misunderstood or even talked past Putin on other key details of what was actually proposed.
Some believe that Putin called for a “peaceful withdrawal” from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine and that Witkoff misunderstood that to mean pulling Russian troops out of there, German outlet BILD reported.
However, they believe that Putin actually meant for Ukrainian forces to be withdrawn from those two territories that Russia has attempted to annex during the war.
Questions swirl about whether Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff misunderstood Putin’s offer on Ukraine
Questions are mounting over whether special envoy Steve Witkoff misinterpreted Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s conditions for bringing about an end to his country’s bloody war on Ukr…nypost.com
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