Prisoner swap building up confidence between US, Russia -— Trump’s special envoy Witkoff

  NEW YORK:  US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East Steven Witkoff expects build-up of confidence between Washington ...

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NEW YORK:  US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East Steven Witkoff expects build-up of confidence between Washington and Moscow after Russian national Alexander Vinnik was released in exchange for US national Marc Fogel.

"We had a really good back channel, and it turned out to be very, very credible and enormously helpful. And that led to, I think, a lot of trust building candidly between the Trump administration and President [of Russia Vladimir] Putin," Witkoff said in an interview aired by the Fox News TV channel.

He also suggested that the exchange that just took place, will probably "pay some large dividends in the future," including in settlement of the Ukraine conflict.

Earlier, Witkoff visited Russia. He departed Russian airspace with Fogel, who had been serving a prison sentence in the country for drug smuggling. Witkoff was also among those representatives of Washington who Trump mentioned as negotiators with Moscow on the issue of the Ukrainian conflict settlement.

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