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Just hours after being bombed, we asked people in Kyiv about Witkoff's praise of Putin

Kyiv Independent22 October 2026, 15:20 UTCUkraine

On Oct. 21, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff gushingly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for being a "humanitarian."Just a few hours later, Kyiv once again came under a fresh barrage of devastating Russian missiles, killing at least one person and injuring over 20."We thought

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