US envoy Steve Witkoff praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a ‘humanitarian’.
US envoy Witkoff calls Russia’s Putin a ‘humanitarian’ US envoy Steve Witkoff praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a ‘humanitarian’ while thanking him for the release of American Stephen Hubbard, who spent more than four years in Russian detention after being convicted of mercenary activity in Ukraine.
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