US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff said Thursday negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine have made significant progress and are expected to continue next week. Security protocol agreement largely finished“We have a security protocol agreement that’s largely finished, a prosperity agreement that’s largely, largely finished. Separately, addressing the Cabinet officials, Trump said he told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin not to fire into Ukraine’s capital Kyiv for a week. “I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kyiv and various towns for a week, and he agreed to do that,” Trump said, citing “extraordinary cold.” “It was very nice. In a statement on US social media company X, Zelenskyy reacted to US President Trump’s remarks during a meeting that he “personally asked” Russian President Putin not to fire on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities amid extreme winter conditions.