Kushner, Witkoff visit to Ukraine under discussion

President Trump’s top officials for peace negotiations, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are in talks to visit Ukraine, a Ukrainian official told The Hill, likely reviving U.S. efforts to reach a settlement to end Russia’s war against the country. 

The discussions about a possible trip followed a meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Tuesday. The Ukrainian leader is in Washington D.C. attending memorial services for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a staunch Ukraine supporter who had returned to the U.S. from a trip to Kyiv shortly before his sudden death earlier this month. 

The Financial Times first reported that Wiktoff and Kushner are in talks to visit Kyiv. It would mark the first time the president’s two top advisors went to Ukraine during Trump’s second term. 

Witkoff, the president’s special advisor for peace missions, and Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, have served as the point people on negotiating with........

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