<p>No 10 says Russian president ‘has killed thousands of people, both innocent Ukrainians and his own people’</p><p>Downing Street has rejected the description of Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian” made by Donald Trump’s chief negotiator on the Ukraine war.</p><p>Steve Witkoff met the Russian president in St Petersburg on Wednesday as he sought to make a new push to end the invasion of Ukraine, with the US putting pressure on Kyiv to agree to a settlement.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/22/downing-street-us-envoy-witkoff-putin-humanitarian">Continue reading...</a>
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Downing Street rejects Witkoff’s description of Putin as a ‘humanitarian’
<p>No 10 says Russian president ‘has killed thousands of people, both innocent Ukrainians and his own people’</p><p>Downing Street has rejected the description of Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian” made by Donald Trump’s chief negotiator on the Ukraine war.</p><p>Steve Witkoff met the Russian president in St Petersburg on Wednesday as he sought to make a new push to end the invasion of Ukraine, with the US putting pressure on Kyiv to agree to a settlement.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/22/downing-street-us-envoy-witkoff-putin-humanitarian">Continue reading...</a>