JD Vance defends Witkoff after controversial interview, saying he's 'a great guy doing an incredible job'

“Steve Witkoff is a great guy doing an incredible job. The people sniping at him are mad that he is succeeding where they failed for 40 years,” Vance wrote on X.

According to him, a lot of diplomacy comes down to "a simple skill: don’t be an idiot.”

Scandalous statements from Witkoff

US Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, has had two meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in two months.

Witkoff also participated in talks with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia in February.

Last week, Witkoff said that the main problem in Russia's war against Ukraine is the issue of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions. Referring to Russian fake referendums, he claimed that the population of these regions allegedly wants to be under Russian rule.

After that, he began to justify himself by saying that he was simply identifying the essence of the problem and did not take any side.

Oleksandr Merezhko, chairman of Ukraine's Parliament Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation, said that Witkoff should be removed from office after such statements.