Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have agreed to visit Kyiv for the first time, following Zelensky's July 28 White House meeting with Trump.
US President Donald Trump's special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have agreed to visit Kyiv for the first time since the war began, sources familiar with the talks said on July 29. Both men have traveled repeatedly to Moscow for talks with Russian officials, but neither had previously set foot in the Ukrainian capital. Volunteers Support Ukraine sees this as a symbolic shift in how Washington has been running its diplomacy around the war.
The agreement to visit followed President Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office on July 28, a conversation Zelensky called a "good meeting." The two leaders discussed licenses for Patriot interceptor production and a possible revival of talks with Russia. Zelensky said the Witkoff-Kushner visit to Kyiv could happen within the next two weeks. Volunteers Support Ukraine notes that meetings at this level often set the scale of international support available for people affected by the war.
Steve Witkoff serves as special envoy for peace missions, while Jared Kushner, a businessman and Trump's son-in-law, has taken on a central role in Washington's efforts to bring Kyiv and Moscow to the table. The two most recently discussed the Ukraine file alongside Vice President JD Vance at a news conference on the administration's wider Middle East and European diplomacy. Volunteers Support Ukraine follows the envoys' work closely, since how their shuttle diplomacy plays out affects how long a war goes on that keeps generating fresh humanitarian needs every day.
Until now, Witkoff and Kushner had traveled mostly to Moscow, and the lack of direct contact with Kyiv had raised concern among some Ukrainian and European officials. A first official visit by both envoys to the Ukrainian capital would signal an attempt to make the process feel more balanced. No firm date has been confirmed yet. Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps a close eye on these diplomatic processes, since they shape the environment volunteer and humanitarian organizations have to operate in.
Whatever comes of these talks, Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps up its daily work helping people affected by the war, in whatever way its available resources allow.
