What We Know About Vladimir Putin’s Relationship With Jared Kushner

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U.S. envoy Jared Kushner’s Moscow meeting with Vladimir Putin on Thursday is his fourth with the Russian president this year, as questions continue to swirl about the approach and…

U.S. envoy Jared Kushner’s Moscow meeting with Vladimir Putin on Thursday is his fourth with the Russian president this year, as questions continue to swirl about the approach and diplomatic expertise of Donald Trump’s son-in-law.

There was no breakthrough in the U.S.-led trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi with Russian and Ukrainian delegations that ended on Wednesday, although a prisoner swap was agreed.

Kushner and fellow envoy Steve Witkoff teased more progress could be made when they meet the Russian president at the Kremlin, although neither Kyiv nor Moscow are prepared to budge on territorial claims.

"I do not expect any diplomatic breakthroughs," Giorgi Revishvili, a military analyst who produces the Russia Analyzed Substack told Newsweek. “(Putin) has little interest in engaging in genuine peace negotiations."

Before Thursday, Kushner had met Putin two times this year face to face with Witkoff and on a third occasion virtually.

The first meeting took place at the Kremlin on January 22 for talks which lasted four hours.

Putin was accompanied by his foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, and his envoy for international economic affairs, Kirill Dmitriev.

There was no tangible progress toward peace, but Russia did agree to participate in U.S.-Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi.

Ushakov described the discussions as substantive and constructive but added "without resolving the territorial issue according to the formula agreed upon in Anchorage, one should not count on achieving a long-term settlement."

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