Dar es Salaam, April 23 -- UNITED STATE OF AMERICA: US President Donald Trumps special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is heading to Russia for another meeting with President Vladimir Putin later this week, the White House has confirmed.

Witkoff has held multiple rounds of talks with senior Russian officials, including at least three meetings with Putin, and is seen as one of the architects of the rapprochement between Moscow and Washington during Trumps second presidency. Russian presidential adviser Yury Ushakov confirmed on Tuesday that reports of Witkoffs upcoming visit are accurate.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists later in the day that both Trump and Witkoff “wanted everybody to know that the neg...