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US envoy Witkoff meets Putin in Russia after 'positive' talks with Zelensky
US special envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg Wednesday after talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Oslo. US news outlet Axios reported that Witkoff would be presenting Putin with an updated peace proposal on ending the war in Ukraine.
Associated Press
What the coverage shows
The coverage converges on a Trump-Zelenskyy relations story tied to Ukraine’s war effort, but the outlets frame it differently. CBS News centers Zelenskyy’s appeal that Trump help Ukraine if he cannot stop Putin, while PBS NewsHour foregrounds Zelenskyy trying to repair ties ahead of a Witkoff-Putin meeting. NPR instead leads with Ukraine-Russia strikes and says relations between Trump and Zelenskyy are sour, and The Guardian US is an editorial that shifts the focus to Trump, Putin, and Europe’s role.
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