Overview
- Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are planning a back-to-back visit to Kyiv followed by Moscow as a follow-up to a July 28 White House meeting between President Trump and Ukraine’s president.
- Ukraine’s foreign ministry has confirmed the envoys are expected in Kyiv and planners are targeting the second half of August for the trip.
- Neither envoy has visited Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, while Witkoff has made multiple trips to Moscow during that period, which has drawn criticism that the effort favors contact with Russia.
- A Moscow leg is expected after the Kyiv stop and officials say the visits are intended to gather on-the-ground information and revive stalled negotiations over the conflict.
- Reporting on the plans is based on Crypto Briefing coverage and confirmation from Ukraine’s foreign ministry, and the use of high-profile informal envoys raises questions about optics and how U.S. diplomacy is being conducted.