John Bolton sharply criticized Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's special envoy who has been dealing with Russia in talks to end its war on Ukraine, calling him a "propaganda vehicle" for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Witkoff knows nothing," Bolton, a U.S. National Security Adviser to Trump in his first administration, told Sky News on Tuesday morning.
"In fact, he's more of a propaganda vehicle for Putin than anything else, conveying, for example, Putin's line that Ukrainians inside Kursk province were completely surrounded, which turns out not to have been true.
"But that's what Putin told Witkoff, Witkoff told that to Trump, and Trump then said it publicly."
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This story was originally published April 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM.