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President Donald Trump’s trusted foreign envoy Steve Witkoff is due in Moscow on Wednesday after the Kremlin requested a meeting with him in a last-ditch effort to avoid the punishing new sanctions Trump has threatened to impose this week, people familiar with the matter said.

He’s set to meet Russian officials — including potential talks with President Vladimir Putin — amid Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

Whether Putin can convince Witkoff — and, by extension, Trump — that he is interested in ending the war is an open question. Trump has cast doubt on Putin’s willingness to stop the fighting and appears wary of being strung along by

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