Russia's President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, meets with US envoys at the Kremlin in Moscow on November 12, 2026.
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At the airport in a freezing Moscow, the billionaire property developer and one of President Donald Trump’s top envoys, Steve Witkoff, fielded a brief question from a CNN team that had been ushered onto the tarmac.

Yes, there had been “progress” at the talks that day with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Witkoff answered.