Russian President Vladimir Putin said he prayed for “his friend” Donald Trump after an assassin’s bullet grazed the then-presidential candidate’s ear last year, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said in an interview Friday.

Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s podcast, Witkoff praised Putin’s willingness to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine and said it was “preposterous” to say that Russia had designs on eventually attacking other countries in Europe.

Witkoff, who has met with…