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Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner Meet Vladimir Putin as U.S. Pushes for Ukraine Peace Deal

HeadlineDec 02, 2025
Image Credit: Vyacheslav Prokofyev via Reuters

President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner are set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow today. Witkoff and Kushner are expected to offer Putin a U.S.-backed peace proposal that was revised during negotiations between American and Ukrainian officials in Miami over the weekend. This follows reporting from The Wall Street Journal on Witkoff’s October meeting with Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and Putin’s handpicked negotiator. Dmitriev reportedly offered a plan for U.S. companies to tap nearly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met French President Emmanuel Macron Monday and is in Ireland today for meetings. Amid the diplomatic activity, Russia launched a missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing four people and injuring 40. Meanwhile, Putin is claiming victory after Russian forces captured the Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donbas region after fierce fighting for over a year. Pokrovsk was once a strategic logistics hub for the Ukrainian army.

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