Ed Wilk 🇺🇦🌵<p>Stupidity covering for malice?</p><p>"German newspaper Bild reported that Trump’s special envoy, former New York property developer Steve Witkoff, misunderstood Putin’s goals during a meeting in Moscow last week.</p><p>Bild reported that Witkoff thought Russia was proposing its “peaceful withdrawal” from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia when Putin was instead demanding the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from those regions."</p><p><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/europe-on-edge-after-trump-envoy-s-translation-blunder-amid-high-stakes-peace-talks-20250811-p5mluw.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smh.com.au/world/europe/europe</span><span class="invisible">-on-edge-after-trump-envoy-s-translation-blunder-amid-high-stakes-peace-talks-20250811-p5mluw.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ChunderRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChunderRoad</span></a></p>