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Washington expelled Bolivia's ambassador in retaliation, and the envoys were never replaced.

The pair appear to have first crossed paths in February 2025 when Putin's envoy played a role in securing the release of an American teacher from a Russian jail.

A senior US official told the BBC that special envoy Steve Witkoff had received input from both the Ukrainians and the Russians "on what terms are acceptable to them to end the war".

Ukraine's envoy, Dmytro Tymoshenko, said Russia and Belarus must remain barred from world sport "until Russia ends its barbaric war of aggression against Ukraine."

In February, Romania’s foreign minister said that presidential envoy Richard Grenell told him at an international security conference in Germany that he remained interested in the fate of the Tates.