Trump Envoys Meet with Putin as Ukraine Peace Deal Inches Closer

In a high-stakes push to end the bloody and costly war in Ukraine, former President Donald Trump’s allies are stepping up where the Biden administration has failed. Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and senior Board of Peace advisor Josh Greunbaum met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Davos for over three hours late Thursday night, signaling serious momentum toward a peace deal the world desperately needs and that Trump may soon deliver.

The closed-door meeting, held just after the conclusion of the World Economic Forum, followed Trump’s private conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier in the day. According to Trump, the discussion with Zelensky was “good,” and for the first time, both Kyiv and Moscow may be ready to put down their arms.

“We’re discussing things that have been discussed for six or seven months,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “President Putin would like to make a deal. I think that President Zelensky would like to make a deal.”

Video released by the Kremlin showed Putin greeting the U.S. envoys alongside his foreign policy team, including aide Yuri Ushakov and special envoy Kirill Dmitriev. At the center of the meeting a 20-point peace plan to end nearly four years of war, which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars.

• Trump’s team says only one major issue remains before the deal can be finalized, likely centered on the Russian demand for territory in Eastern Ukraine land that Ukraine has largely defended in recent months.

• Unlike Biden, who has pumped over $113 billion into Ukraine with little progress to show, Trump is now offering a real path to peace.

• Zelensky, under growing pressure, blasted European leaders at Davos for their inaction, saying, “Europe loves to discuss the future, but avoids taking action today.”

This bold diplomatic engagement marks a stark contrast to the Biden administration’s endless proxy war strategy one that’s drained the U.S. economy while bringing the world closer to nuclear escalation.

The potential of a Trump-brokered peace would not only end a grinding conflict, it would expose the incompetence of Biden’s foreign policy team, which has preferred virtue-signaling and blank checks over results. For over three years, the White House has refused to negotiate, blindly arming Ukraine while ignoring diplomacy.

Now, Trump and his trusted allies are doing what the Biden administration never could sitting down with both sides, face-to-face, and hashing out a solution. And while the exact outcome of Thursday’s meeting remains unclear, one thing is certain: real leadership is back on the world stage, and it’s not coming from Joe Biden.

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