Vladimir Putin went to church to pray for Donald Trump after he was shot on stage on stage last year, has unveiled Top Envoy Steve Witkoff.
The Russian leader also gave a portrait of the American president he sent to Trump as a gift.
The revelations were made by Trump's most important negotiator who appeared in an interview on Friday with ex-Fox news anchor Tucker Carlson.
“President Putin had ordered a wonderful portrait of President Trump, from the leading Russian artist, and actually gave me and asked me to take it home to President Trump,” he said.
'It was such a graceful moment, and [he] Told me his story … about how when the president was shot, he went to his local church and met his priest and Bad in front of the president.
“Not because he was the president of the United [States]… but because he had a friendship with him and he prayed for his friend. '
Last July, when the presidential candidate for the Republican party, Trump spoke during a meeting in Butler, Pennsylvania when a barrage of rifle rounds was fired by shooter Thomas Matthew Cooks rained on him and Graas in the ear. T.
Witkoff's comments did nothing to detract from suspicions of a pally relationship between Trump and Putin.
Vladimir Putin went to church to pray for Donald Trump when he was shot last year, unveiled top envoy Steve Witkoff
The Russian leader is also said to have commissioned a portrait of Trump
The revelation comes as Putin and Trump this week have taken the first steps to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. Shown: display shows damaged private houses in a location of a Russian drone strike, amidst Russia attack on Ukraine, in the city of Hostomel, Kyiv Region, Ukraine March 19, 2025
It is because both leaders have taken the first steps this week to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, while they agreed with an 'energy and infrastructure placement style'.
The partial cease -the -fire agreement will be in force for 30 days.
Conversations for a permanent peace will 'start immediately' in the middle, although Putin Trump said that he has various conditions he wants to have met to have the fights ended.
'The leaders agreed that the movement towards peace will start with an energy and infrastructure, as well as technical negotiations on the implementation of a cease -the fire in the Black Sea, completely ceases -the fires and permanent peace. These negotiations will immediately start in the middle, “said the White House in the reading of the call.
Witkoff also said that the Putin -occupied regions of Ukraine – Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia – were 'Russian -speaking' and said: 'There were referenda where the overwhelming majority of people demonstrated that they want to be under Russian rule'.
These were voices after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which were not recognized by Western countries.
Despite this, Witkoff said: 'That is the elephant in the room.
'The elephant in the room is the constitutional issues in Ukraine about what they can give up when it comes to giving up territory.
Three people were killed and 12 were injured in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday morning
Rescuers work on the location of a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone attack in Zaporizhzhia
Police officers wear the body of a person killed by a Russian drone strike in a residential area in Zaporizhzhia,
'The Russians have de facto control over those areas.
'The question is, will the world acknowledge that these are Russian areas?
“Will Zensky Survive politics if he does? That is the central issue of the conflict. '
In the meantime, heavy fighting between Russia and Ukraine has continued.
Three people were killed and 12 were injured in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday morning.
Regional head of Ivan Fedorov said that 'residential buildings, private cars and social infrastructure facilities were set on fire on Friday evening and published photos that showed the emergency services that search the debris of damaged residential buildings for survivors.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia 179 exploded drones and Lokvogels in the last wave of attacks at night until Saturday.
It said that 100 were intercepted and another 63 'lost', probably electronically fought.
Civil servants in the Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions also reported fires that outbreak because of the falling debris of intercepted drones.
Ukraine and Russia were in principle an agreement on Wednesday with a limited cease -the fires, Trump spoke with the leaders of the countries, although it is still to see which possible goals are forbidden to attack.
The three parties seemed to have grim different views about what the deal had treated.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zensky that Ukraine is open to a fully cessation of 30 days that Trump has suggested, saying: “We will not be against a size, step towards unconditional cease-fire.”
