Steve Witkoff, the Special Envoy to former US President Donald Trump, disclosed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued an apology to Trump.
Witkoff made this revelation on Monday, detailing a letter sent from Zelenskyy to Trump.
The letter contained an apology for the tense altercation in the Oval Office that interrupted the scheduled signing of an important mineral agreement between the US and Kyiv.
Trump had mentioned the letter during his address to Congress last Tuesday.
“Zelenskyy sent a letter to the president. He apologised for that whole incident that happened in the office. I think that was an important step.
“And there’s been a lot of discussion between our teams, the Ukrainians, and the Europeans who are relevant to this discussion as well, and I would like to describe it as progress,” Witkoff said during a Fox News interview.
“I would hope that there’s a deal,” he added, speaking just minutes before departing the US for a meeting with Ukrainian representatives in Saudi Arabia.
Zelenskyy cited past agreements that Putin had repeatedly broken in the years leading up to the full-scale war he launched on his eastern European neighbour.
