The Pakistan Times

ST PETERSBURG, 21 October, 2026 (Ghufran): US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Wednesday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to consider resuming US-mediated trilateral peace talks involving Ukraine, Russia and the United States, as Washington renewed efforts to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II. The meeting, held at a grand imperial palace in St Petersburg, marked the ninth in-person encounter between Witkoff and Putin and began with a goodwill gesture from Moscow — the release of Stephen Hubbard, a retired American scho...