President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared martial law early on Feb. 24, 2022, under Kyiv skies still tinged black by the smoke from Russian missile strikes.
Washington led an international campaign for tough economic penalties after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Dozens of countries have punished Russian banks, businesses and oligarchs. They froze $300 billion of Russia’s assets, barred it from much of the global financial system and restricted what it could buy and sell.
However, Witkoff was previously named as Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, while retired General Keith Kellogg was initially tasked with leading the Ukraine-Russia case ... According to The New York Times, Witkoff’s mission to Moscow did ...