{"id":24426,"date":"2026-10-21T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/21\/us-envoy-witkoff-st-petersburg-putin-ukraine-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:45:19","slug":"us-envoy-witkoff-st-petersburg-putin-ukraine-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/21\/us-envoy-witkoff-st-petersburg-putin-ukraine-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"US special envoy arrives in St Petersburg for talks with Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of the United States, arrived in St Petersburg, Russia&#8217;s second-largest city, on Wednesday to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin on ways to end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The trip came a day after Witkoff met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the city of Oslo. The visit to St Petersburg, which was once the capital of the Russian Empire, comes as part of continued diplomatic efforts to ease tensions in the region.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described Witkoff&#8217;s meeting with Zelensky as positive and said the results of those talks would be shared with the Russian side. US diplomatic efforts to end the fighting in eastern Europe continue, as the implications of the war for regional and global security remain a concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US envoy Steve Witkoff arrives in St Petersburg for talks with Putin on ending the war in Ukraine after meeting Zelensky in Oslo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}