Witkoff heads to Russia as Trump’s sanctions threat looms
- Posted on August 5, 2025
- By CNN
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Witkoff heads to Russia as Trump’s sanctions threat looms

President Donald Trump’s trusted foreign envoy Steve Witkoff is due in Moscow on Wednesday after the Kremlin requested a meeting with him in a last-ditch effort to avoid the punishing new sanctions Trump has threatened to impose this week, people familiar with the matter said.