Witkoff to Present Putin With Updated Ukraine Peace Proposal — SkimNews
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- Steve Witkoff, the White House envoy, will meet Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Wednesday to hand over an updated U.S. peace proposal aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, according to a U.S. official.
- Jared Kushner, identified as Trump's son-in-law and adviser, will join the Witkoff-Putin meeting virtually — not as a named government appointee in the report.
- The visit comes after Witkoff's talks with Zelensky (per the headline), indicating a shuttle-diplomacy approach in which updated drafts travel back and forth between Kyiv and Moscow.
- Cross-coverage: Axios and Globe and Mail headlines report Russia freed a U.S. citizen/detainee in connection with the talks — a development absent from this report's body.
- CBC's headline frames the meeting as occurring amid a report that Musk throttled Starlink, the satellite network Ukraine's forces depend on for battlefield communications.
Why it matters: Kushner's virtual inclusion as a private family adviser — not a confirmed diplomat — underscores the Trump White House's personal-channel approach to Ukraine negotiations, while the 'updated' proposal arriving after Witkoff's prior Zelensky talks signals iterative shuttle diplomacy rather than a single take-it-or-leave-it framework.
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