Not Witkoff: Kremlin says who will play key role in drafting peace plan
Photo: meeting between US and Russian representatives on the peace plan to end the war (Getty Images)
The aide to the Russian President, Yuri Ushakov, is convinced that the son-in-law of the US President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, will have a significant influence on preparing a peace agreement for Ukraine, Yuri Ushakov made this statement to Russian media.
The Kremlin leader’s aide said that Kushner’s participation in the talks in Russia "turned out to be very timely." According to him, it added an "element of systematic approach" to the "charm and friendliness" of the US special envoy, Steve Witkoff.
"I personally believe that, in many ways, if some plan leading to a settlement continues to take shape on paper, it will largely be Kushner who will be holding the pen," Ushakov emphasized.
US peace plan
In November, the US presented a new peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. The document was drafted by Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and the Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev.
The initial version of the plan included 28 points, but some of them were very favorable to Russia. Because of this, the US and Ukrainian delegations held meetings in Geneva and Miami to revise the document and make it more favorable for Kyiv.
On Tuesday, December 2, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow to meet with the Russian President and discuss the updated document.
After five hours of negotiations, Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov spoke to the media. He said that no compromise had been reached yet, but the parties were ready to continue working.
His comments were interpreted as a rejection of the US proposal. However, the next day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed that this was not the case.
A few days later, Putin himself spoke on the matter. He said he had rejected some of the peace proposals and noted that the document now has 27 points, divided into four packages. Before the talks, information suggested that the document had been reduced to 19–20 points after consultations with Ukraine.
The New York Times clarified that one of the packages concerns Ukrainian sovereignty, including limitations on the size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the range of its missiles. The other packages address territorial concessions, post-war economic cooperation between the US and Russia, and broader European security issues.
