{"id":1187245,"date":"2026-09-05T04:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1187245\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:29:20","slug":"trump-says-witkoff-kushner-heading-abroad-to-discuss-ukraine-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1187245\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Witkoff, Kushner heading abroad to discuss Ukraine peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1x1_spacer.png\" alt=\"Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions. File.\" title=\"Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions. File.\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1x1_spacer.png\" class=\"lead-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                    Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions. File.<br \/>\n                                          | Photo Credit: Reuters\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>U.S. \u200cSpecial Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, \u200bDonald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, are heading \u2060abroad to attempt to forge a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, the U.S. president \u200ctold reporters on Friday (September 4, 2026).<\/p>\n<p>During comments in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump \u200csuggested the U.S. had a concrete \u200cproposal \u2060aimed at ending the war, \u2060which is now in its fifth year. He did not, however, elaborate on what that proposal would \u200bbe, nor \u200cdid he say if Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner would be travelling to Ukraine, Russia or both nations.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy \u200con Friday (September 4, 2026) said the two men \u200bwould fly to Ukraine on Sunday (September 6, 2026) after visiting Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have \u2060an idea for peace,\u201d Mr. Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sent Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, two \u200cgreat negotiators. They\u2019ve done a great job, and we sent them over to see whether or not we can get something done. And there may be a good chance that we\u2019ll \u200cdo it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The duo had been planning to \u200btravel to Moscow over the weekend followed by a visit to Kyiv, \u2060two sources previously told Reuters. However, the \u2060itinerary has been in flux in recent days, and the Kyiv section \u200cof the journey was still not completely certain, one of the sources \u200bsaid on Friday (September 4, 2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time-new\"> Published &#8211; September 05, 2026 07:04 am IST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. \u200cSpecial Envoy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1187246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,129858,25054,7661,7070,657],"class_list":["post-1187245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-jared-kushner","tag-russia-ukraine-crisis","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-steve-witkoff","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117216555282626613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}