Ukraine looks optimistically at Donald Trump’s son-in-law. Since the last talks in Geneva on November 23, Jared Kushner has maintained an active role in “The mere fact that Trump added Kushner is a good sign,” he says Oleksandr Merezhkochairman of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee of Ukraine, in statements reported by the newspaper
Kushner’s rapid emergence into top-level diplomacy comes at a key moment: Washington is seeking new momentum for its peace proposal to end the war. Trump’s relative, as the publication states, is an American businessman and a prominent figure in the president’s political circle.
Thus, he was a senior advisor in the first Trump administration between 2017 and 2021, overseeing areas ranging from peace negotiations in the Middle East to criminal justice reform and the Office of American Innovation. But Kushnner’s most notable achievement in foreign policy came in 2020, when he designed the Abrahamic accords, “a historic diplomatic breakthrough that normalized relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.”
However, his return to diplomacy was marked by peace negotiations regarding the war in Gaza. The businessman traveled to Egypt with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and participated in the final phase of those negotiations. Although he does not hold any formal position in the Government,
The last negotiation in which the businessman had to take sides was held this week in Moscow, where he was able to discuss the peace proposal presented by Trump with Vladimir Putin. At the end of the talks, he stated that most of the elements were agreed, and that the main unresolved issue remained Moscow’s demand that Ukraine cede territory. a condition that kyiv has rejected.
Merezhko has a clear theory: he claims that “Trump no longer trusts Witkoff and wants someone closer to him to effectively supervise Witkoff.” “I have heard positive things about Kushner from Ukrainians with knowledge of the negotiations,” he says, “but few concrete details.”
