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American businessman and diplomat (born 1957)
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin for nearly five hours on Dec. 2 as part of U.S. efforts to press a peace plan for Ukraine and then briefed President...
Reporting and public records describe a mix of long-standing business flirtations, episodic contacts and political ties between Donald Trump, members of his circle, and Russian-linked actors — but the...
Available reporting shows the Trump administration has publicly claimed to have brokered multiple international agreements in 2025 — notably a U.S.-backed 28‑point Ukraine peace framework that Ukraine...
Available reporting shows multiple incidents in 2025 in which sensitive material from the Trump administration was published or leaked — including a purported “secret” National Security Strategy excer...
Jared Kushner has played a in shaping the Trump administration’s post-2024 Israel peace efforts, participating in negotiations, drafting proposals, and linking U.S. envoys with Israeli officials while...
President Donald Trump has publicly named himself chair of a newly created “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza’s transitional governance and reconstruction and has appointed several close confidants and ...
Reporting says Jared Kushner was part of a small Trump administration team that helped draft and promote a 28‑point “peace plan” on Russia‑Ukraine that, in its U.S. form, would recognize Crimea (and p...
Donald Trump’s business ties to foreign countries are alleged to have intersected with his foreign policy decisions through investments, gifts, and the presence of foreign partners in his orbit, raisi...
and said it reviewed audio of two intercepted October phone calls: an October 14 exchange between and foreign‑policy aide Yuri Ushakov in which Witkoff coaches Ushakov on how to frame a peace pitch to...
and have been publicly linked to efforts that : reporting shows they met with top Russian officials including , were involved in shaping and pitching peace proposals, and that journalists and analysts...
There is no reporting in the provided sources showing a direct personal or institutional link between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov; the mater...
No U.S. federal law‑enforcement or congressional investigations into Steve Witkoff or Jared Kushner over ties to Russia are reported in the material provided; the coverage documents meetings with Vlad...
President Trump traveled to Florida in early December amid local political pushback over a proposed offshore drilling plan — Florida’s entire congressional delegation urged him to exclude the state . ...
The leaked 28‑point draft — widely reported as coming from talks between a U.S. team led by Steve Witkoff and Russian interlocutors — included provisions that would require Ukraine to cede control of ...
U.S.–backed negotiations and pressure from President Trump’s administration have put intense short timelines on a U.S.-proposed peace plan that critics say would require Ukraine to cede territory in t...
The United States played an active, sometimes direct, mediating role in multiple rounds of Gaza hostage-ceasefire talks between 2024 and 2025: U.S. officials urged negotiations, pushed Israel to delay...
Vladimir Putin has presented himself as willing to engage in “serious” negotiations over U.S.- and U.S.-Ukraine-drafted peace proposals, yet multiple recent statements and actions cited in reporting s...
The planned Budapest summit between President Trump and President Putin was shelved after Moscow reiterated broad, "maximalist" demands on Ukraine — including territorial concessions, limits on Kyiv's...
Ukraine accepted a Russian-proposed 30‑hour Easter truce on April 19–20, 2025, a first formal pause in ground hostilities, but both Kyiv and Moscow immediately accused each other of breaches and the p...
Available reporting shows President Trump has pushed a U.S. 28‑point peace proposal that would require Ukraine to cede territory and that U.S. envoys met Putin in Moscow; multiple outlets describe Tru...