Jared Kushner speaks from Ukraine Sept. 8

Jared Kushner said in Kyiv that President Donald Trump was determined to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, comments that circulated again on social media on Tuesday after his weekend visit to the Ukrainian capital. Kushner made the remarks on September 6 while appearing with fellow envoy Steve Witkoff and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during talks in Kyiv. Reports from the visit said Kushner framed Trump’s position as a push not only to stop the fighting but to secure what he described as a durable peace. ### When did Kushner make the remarks from Ukraine? September 6 was the date of Kushner’s public comments in Kyiv, according to reports from ABC News, NPR and Ukrainian outlets carried by Yahoo. Kushner and Witkoff had arrived in the Ukrainian capital that day after talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 5. (abcnews.com) Kyiv was the pair’s first visit to the Ukrainian capital during Russia’s full-scale invasion, ABC News reported. The meetings were part of a renewed White House effort to restart negotiations over the war. ### What exactly did Kushner say? Kushner told Zelenskyy and reporters that Trump had asked the delegation to convey his personal regards to the Ukrainian people, ABC News reported. (abcnews.com) He said Trump viewed the war as “a very, very hard and complex problem,” but also “a very worthy problem worth solving.” Yahoo’s pickup of Ukrainska Pravda and European Pravda reporting said Kushner added that Trump was “very determined” to see the war end, stop the deaths and bring relief to families. The same report said Kushner described the objective as creating conditions for a “long-term and durable peace” that would allow Ukraine to rebuild. (abcnews.com) ### Why are the comments resurfacing on September 8? An X post dated September 8 recirculated Kushner’s remarks and said he was speaking from Ukraine about Trump’s determination to end the war. The social-media post appears to reference the comments Kushner made publicly in Kyiv during the September 6 visit, rather than a newly reported appearance on September 8. (yahoo.com) The post fits into broader attention around the Trump administration’s latest diplomatic push. Earlier reports said Trump had announced that Witkoff and Kushner were traveling to Russia and Ukraine with a proposal aimed at ending the war. ### What happened in Kyiv around those remarks? Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Kushner and Witkoff in Kyiv on September 6 after the U.S. envoys’ Moscow trip, according to ABC News and the Kyiv Independent. (abcnews.com) The discussions covered Ukraine’s winter needs, security guarantees, economic guarantees and Patriot air-defense supplies, the Kyiv Independent reported. (upi.com) NPR reported from the scene that Kushner, Witkoff and Zelenskyy all described the talks as substantive, but did not disclose the new ideas they said had been presented. Zelenskyy later said he expected the war to continue into the winter, according to the Kyiv Independent. (abcnews.com) ### What comes next in the diplomacy? The White House described the Moscow talks as “substantive plans for next steps,” ABC News reported, while Yahoo’s account of Ukrainian reporting said the next steps would be unveiled in the coming weeks. Possible future formats mentioned by participants included U.S.-Ukraine-Europe talks and U.S.-Ukraine-Russia talks, though no dates or locations were announced. (wxxinews.org) For now, the verified record is narrower than the social-media framing: Kushner’s reported statement from Kyiv was made on September 6, and it has been recirculated on September 8 as attention remains on the administration’s Ukraine diplomacy. (abcnews.com)